Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jockeying for the start of the first of six races for a "women's national sailing championship" off Cohasset, Mass. last week, Skipper Lorna Whittelsey of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club's crew had a piece of hard luck. Two of the other six boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible...
...First Division in the Argonne. South Carolina-born and socially inclined, he did much to revive the social life of Chicago's Fort Sheridan. With his wife and one of his daughters, Anne (who was last year voted the most beautiful girl at Smith College), he will sail for Manila next month...
...young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...morning last week a group of university students launched into the air a small sailplane named Loerzer of Grunau. In the cockpit sat a brown-shirted youth named Kurt Schmidt, 27, a philology student at Konigsberg and a Nazi Storm Trooper. It was a good day for a sail-fresh breezes were blowing-and Student Schmidt thought he might stay up until afternoon, so he carried a bottle of drinking water, a few slices of black bread. He sailed south along a ridge 40 mi. or so, swinging back & forth to catch the up-currents that gave altitude, wheeled around...
According to reliable reports, President-elect James B. Conant '14 will arrive in America from France before the end of next week. It is probable that he will sail on the Europa. Since he was in France on June 21, when he was officially notified by the Overseers he has not made public any plans...