Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benighted, garish Coney Island and pity the people who so desperately depend on such a place for their fleeting, unfufilling recreation-Excursion begins to take on a modest significance. Why not, says Obediah's slightly pixillated Brother Jonathan, take this doomed little ship and her doomed company and sail for southern seas? He has a map of a fine Caribbean island he discovered when he was in the China trade. Why not rescue these poor people out of the chains of their industrial civilization, place them in the Eden they vainly seek each Sunday on the Happiness bound...
...year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon an earth which had grown, it thought, beyond the need of it." Applicants for the cadet part of his crew...
Although many of the team will be unable to make the trip to Bermuda this spring, 15 members of the Rugby squad will sail Saturday from New York on the Queen of Bermuda for a series of three matches. Since so many of the first team will stay here because of finances or other plans, those going to Bermuda are merely a group of volunteers, not the Crimson rugby team...
...leave of absence from the University, Roger B. Merriman '96, Guerney Professor of History, and Political Science and Master of Eliot House, will, sail Thursday morning for England to complete the study necessary for his projected book, "Six Contemporaneous Revolutions...
...Moscow last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts...