Word: maran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam and the cata-maran." Through all his life, with the weakness of one whose childhood has been too happy, he found no other companions whom he loved so well as these. At the time of his death he was separated from his wife, his two children...
...Bristol, R. L, are descended from an ancient line of New England boatbuilders. John B. (died 1915) blind from boyhood, was a great ship-designer and head of the firm, but it was Captain "Nat" Herreshoff (brother of John) who made the name famous. He invented a cata maran that sailed 21 m.p.h. He also introduced the "fin" keel for racing sloops, now used the world over...