Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
Last April 1 Marstrand Fishing Co. at Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later she put in at Dover, dropped the engineer, picked up another, set out again at once. On April 12 she appeared at Corcubion, Spain, badly damaged by storms. Going ashore, the crew had her repaired, bought $1,175 worth of provisions, sent the bill to the owners at Grimsby...
...Gahan and his 11 masters of rhythm will provide the music tonight as the S.S. Adams sets sail on her Spring "Cruise Party" Varied nautical paraphernalia will decorate the dance-floor...
...fellows in many fields, little was said in your account of his intellectual side. He is much more of a philosopher and poet than he is an athletic coach. He is an excellent dialectician, he can skillfully fence with the most subtle minds. Besides his coaching abilities he can sail a boat most excellently and talk Plato while doing so. He was a fine long-distance swimmer...
...Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection revealed that he had assembled some 500 cases of crew trouble, mostly at sea. The charges included refusals to attend fire drills, to keep sufficient steam up after reprimands for not standing watch. It appeared that a crew had refused to sail until a prisoner in jail ashore was released. One story was that fire-hose had been found mangled by axes after the ship left port. When these tales reached the Press, ship owners bitterly assailed what they considered premature publicity, declared a "sabotage scare" was being built out of nothing. They...