Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waikiki Wedding" is pleasant to behold if you like Bing's voice, semi-Hawalian music, and genuine pictures of a schooner under sail; tiresome if you think Martha Haye's mouth is to big for her face. The string itself is a not too substantial plot of how the champion pineapple salesman sells himself while trying to sell his product. But the show is not to be condemned for being unsubstantial, because that is just what it tries not to be. Rather this is something aimed directly to please the not too demanding sense...
With the prospect of two years field work in the desert plateau of central Persia, Bennett F. Buie, proctor in Wigglesworth and Geology 1 section man, will sail from Now York this morning on an expedition sent out by the American Oil Company...
...noon last week some 1,800 passengers, including J. P. Morgan and James W. Gerard, special representative for President Roosevelt, were aboard the regal Queen Mary about to sail from Manhattan to attend the Coronation of the world's greatest surviving King, George VI. At sailing time, however, it looked as if a petty king of U. S. labor were going to have the best of puissant George VI, for the Coronation-bound passengers were aboard ship but their Coronation costumes were dock-bound by a strike of some 300 baggage wallopers called out by President Joseph P. Ryan...
...helped him rig up testing apparatus which demonstrated that the eel's current courses along its body at the rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher Coates snorts at the idea of an Eel Light & Power Co., but does believe that study...
Open to both men and women, the European architecture course will open at Harvard June 28; the students will sail from Boston July 3 and return to the United States August 23. The party will examine particularly the development of the "New Architecture" in Europe...