Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scores of Passengers (after fuming aboard the Rex at Gibraltar for three days): "Why isn't the purser in his office? . . . Why can't anybody find the Captain? . . . They said yesterday afternoon that we should positively sail during the night...
...commanded the forts in the 1690 Leisler Rebellion; another of whom is reputedly still owed £567 for paying for Manhattan's City Hall in 1803. Rex Brasher had no art training except at Tiffany's and at a Port land, Maine photo-engraver's. At 19 he set sail in a sloop down the Atlantic coast. In one spring afternoon on the deserted waste of Long Island's Far Rockaway he saw 86 different species of birds. He sold his sloop in Key West and went back to Brooklyn to paint what he had seen. In 1900 he burned...
...career: a triumphant flying return to Alaska. He had flown across the country, taking with him Pianist Harrison Potter and Soprano Ruby Mercer, both of whom have been associated with him in Chautauqua, and as publicity man his Princeton friend Harvey Phillips. They would crate the plane, sail up from Seattle to Seward, Alaska, then fly to Fairbanks for the first concert on Sept. 17. There would be caribou and moose hunting, mountain-climbing, sight seeing, then concerts in Seward, Juneau, Seattle, possibly in Vancouver, Victoria and elsewhere. Because Bob Crawford was once a surveyor for it, the Alaska Railroad...
...towed kite-wise into the air by an automobile or airplane. Soaring is sustained or climbing flight by use of up-currents in the air. Except for instruction there is small interest in gliding. But soaring appeals to its following as an exalted sport, related to powered flight as sail-boating is to motorboating...
...record was nearly soared by 18-year-old Robert Eaton, nephew of Pilot Warren Eaton, son of Vice President Melvin Eaton of Norwich Pharmacal Co. Robert, who last year piled up more points than his uncle, went for a sail of several miles and turned back. Failing to realize how far he had gone, he passed directly over his original take-off point, landed somewhere else. Had he been aware, he could have made a record for distance-&-return. Flying weather was so good for the first stage of the meet that pilots welcomed two days of doldrums in which...