Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Times, reporting the news of Trafalgar: "There was not a man who did not think that the life of the Hero of the Nile was too great a price for the capture and destruction of twenty sail of French and Spanish men of war. No ebullitions of popular transport, no demonstrations of public joy, marked this great and important event...
...this should have been investigated last week by the Ecuadorean Government, but Galapagos seemed too far away. Meanwhile yet another Galapagos expedition prepared to sail last week from Los Angeles. Its chief was Dr. Waldo Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates at the Smithsonian Institution. Tiny crabs, polyps and miniscule sponges are Dr. Schmitt's specialty but he bravely promised to do his best as detective as well...
...Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree in the Woods...
...Before the eyes of a half dozen cameras, the assassin was trampled to death by the crowd, and bystanders fell before a wild fusillade of police bullets. The newsreel crews rushed their precious films to Paris by air, hoping to catch the Bremen or Aquitania about to sail for the U. S. To their indescribable rage, the films were seized at Le Bourget Airport and at Cherbourg on orders of the Surété Nationale, because supposedly the pictures vividly illustrated lack of police protection for Alexander. After two days of wrangling, the French authorities finally released the films...
Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...