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Word: saile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overlook the fact that a famous sailor, Cris Columbus by name, was one of the greatest politicians of all history. When he set sail from Spain, he didn't know where he was going. When he reached his destination, he didn't know where he was. When he returned to Spain, he didn't know where he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...George Rublee, 70, international lawyer and longtime legal adviser to the U. S. Government was appointed director of the prospective refugee bureau, prepared last week to sail for London to take charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Five- Year-Hope | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted 125 students each summer; Provincetown was more famous as an art colony than it had ever been as a fishing village; and Hawthorne had a reputation as one of the greatest of U. S. art teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mudheads | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

After a 26-day U. S. visit which proved that the better behaved a royal family may be the less interest it holds for a democracy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Princess Louise and Prince Bertil of Sweden set sail for home on the Gripsholm. They said they had a wonderful time. As a gift from General Motors. Prince Bertil took back with him a shiny new 8-cylinder Cadillac sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Most exuberant metaphormix born of last week's continued market rise was voiced by Secretary of Commerce "Uncle Danny" Roper: "Now is the time for business to set its sail to the forward current and prepare for participation in the now forming upward swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Government's Week: Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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