Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of a voyage to Greenland made last year by Kent and two companions: the late Arthur Samuel Allen Jr., 22† and Lucian ("Cupid") Carey, 22. Their boat, the cutter Direction, 13 tons, 33 ft. over all, belonged to Allen's father. Allen was skipper, "Cupid" mate; Kent was cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...
Elaborately wrought, encrusted with 17th Century Portuguese ornamentation, it bears proudly the arms of the ten-year-old Portuguese Republic. Weight : 6 Ib. Mate rial: silver plate. Nature: inkstand...
...become no laughing matter. George, a young member of the baboon colony, had stolen a female belonging to the "king," the oldest, largest baboon of Monkey Hill. Taking her into an inaccessible place, he had piled up a barricade of sticks and stones. The king, who still had another mate left, squatted nearby, uninterested, curiously watched the indignation of other colony members...
...Fields, Letzelter's running mate at the other halfback post, and a product of Illinois where he was the understudy to "Frosty" Peters: The second member of the 1933 trio of Letzelter, Fields, and Herb which is the power of the Army attack...