Word: roderick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give the smaller yachts an even chance-crossing the finish line first is usually brief satisfaction. Winner of last week's race was not the Flame but the trim 21-ton, 37-ft. yawl that followed her into port six hours later-the famed Dorade, owned by Roderick Stephens Jr., 23, who was her captain last week and his brother Olin, 24, her designer. On corrected time, Flame dropped into third place and another U. S. boat, Henry and Sherman Morss's schooner Grenadier, was second. Sixth and last was the scratch boat Ilex. Said Robert Somerset, skipper...
...owns a coal business in The Bronx, so interested in the sport that he became a vice-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Olin left M. I. T. after one year to help start, with a friend not much older than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade, smallest of the fleet of well-known ocean-going yachts, has functioned so efficiently...
...clock--Morning Prayers 4 o'clock--Lecture by Professor Roderick Macdonald, of Harvard, on "Some of the More Significant Advances in Biological Research During the Past One Hundred Years." Large Lecture Hall of Biological Institute on Divinity Avenue...
Meanwhile the Mallorcan authorities decided that, having collected 20,000 pesetas bail from two prisoners, they might as well release the other three, Edmund Blodgett, Roderick Mead and Mrs. Lockwood's husband Clinton. Judge Vidal collected the five passports, ordered the bailed-out Americans to report daily to him, lest they leave Mallorca. In Madrid diplomatic compliments were exchanged between Ambassador Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time...
...were having their own race as to who was to get TIME first, I ... put my TIME-reading day over to the following Monday so they would have an even break to discover the perfect newsweekly. Needless to say the other two magazines mentioned came no more. . . . MRS. JOHN RODERICK PIERCE...