Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest Sturm and their daughter will sail Saturday on the Rex for Gibraltar for a three weeks' tour through Spain. Following the tour they will embark at Gibraltar on the Conte di Savoia...
...naturally considers Eadie a guttersnipe adventuress. Young T. R. decides to marry her. Paige senior arranges a scene in which Eadie, back in Manhattan, is publicly photographed in negligee in the embrace of a grinning stranger. Eadie retaliates in kind when old T. R. is about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige...
...century's turn one-third of the world's shipping was sail. Today all but 1,000,000 tons are either steam or motor. Before the War nine-tenths of all self-propelled ships burned coal; today one-half burn...
...several ships of the Royal Navy have been lazing near Samos, a Greek island two miles off Turkey. One boiling hot afternoon last week three British officers from the big cruiser H. M. S. Devonshire shoved off in a ship's boat for what Britons afterwards called "a sail and a swim." Their pleasure took them within wading distance of Turkey's forbidden shore. Suddenly, out of the underbrush raced ten Turkish coast guards brandishing rifles and shaking their fists...
...deliveries take place. The impossibility of such a thing is seen upon analysis. Mr. Stiver states that there were no copies [of TIME] in Seattle, as none had been printed while he was en route from Chicago. That being the case, how could copies not printed at the time sail ahead of him, presumably on one of the C.P.R. ships, be dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland? I am truly curious. I have sailed that stretch plenty of times, and never once have I seen a "post box" of any description...