Word: sailboating
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While Albert Einstein was last week running his little sailboat aground in the Connecticut River, there appeared from his mighty pen a communication to The Physical Review which marked a milestone toward the goal to which the exiled German has promised to devote the rest of his life...
...Parish career. He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails. He had set himself up in machinery business in Chicago. The War dumped fat marine contracts into his lap. but the post-War collapse nearly ruined him. He and his brother had procured an old sailboat, picked up peaches at night in Michigan for 90? a bu. and sold them in Chicago next morning for $3. Finally Frank Parish had turned up in Kansas City selling gas pipes. What gas men wanted to know, was a 32-year-old pipe salesman who had made his comeback...
...amateur snapshots are taken in the U. S. every year. The average photographer pays about 35? for an eight-exposure roll of film, another 65? for developing and printing. For $1 or less he gets eight black & white prints of his wife, his children, his friends, his garden, his sailboat, or whatnot...
...prison for his supplies. They exchanged corals for walking sticks, violin bows for turtle shells. Your tintype of Dr. Mudd shows him whittling another cane of hard wood, one of which is in my collection. My grandfather's painting of his lighthouse home, and the little sailboat Jenney of Loggerhead is on my wall before...
...aged perceptibly. Colds have caused the President most of his trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend in the sun aboard the Sequoia to eradicate. Last time that he was indisposed was late in October, when he went to bed with what...