Word: lumbago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago, was not able to see the start but felt well enough to give out to the press the usual expressions of his optimistic sportsmanship...