Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
Henry Hemmendinger '35, 1G., and Miss Henrietta Swope are the other members of the University who will sail on Wednesday, April 8 for Russia, where they will join Dr. B.P. Gerasimovic, Soviet scientist, in the journey to the field station set up by the Poulkova Observatory...
...trick of inflecting her voice in several keys. She handles her body with the articulate abandon of Elisabeth Bergner, who looks good in shorts, too. The Hillers, well-to-do Manchester cotton people, were opposed to Wendy's going on the stage. But if Hollywood lets her sail back to England after Love on the Dole is over, Broadway will be much surprised...
...years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago sales manager. No sooner had he made a resounding success than he chucked the job, went to Victor Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, told him his idea. The idea: to sail across Europe from the North to the Black...
Every four years the wheels of industry, the fleets that sail the seas, the post office department, and the society columns of the newspapers, indeed, the whole world is upset by an insidious confusion that arises from the fact that we have an extra day thrown into an otherwise smoothly running stream of time. The system is so inaccurate that every four hundred years, as regularly as the sun rises and sets, we must skip a Leap Year. Could anything be more ridiculous than skipping a Leap Year...