Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday, President Laredo Bru gave his decision: Cuba did not want the St. Louis' Jews. The St. Louis had to leave promptly, or it would be towed out of the harbor by a gunboat. Her captain announced the ship would sail for Germany by way of Lisbon at 10 a. m. next morning. And as he had said that he feared mutiny or a wave of suicides if the refugees were returned, the St. Louis was followed out to sea by 26 police boats to pick up any other passengers who might fling themselves into the waters. Slowly...
...returned to his old home on Brattle Street "to round out the year." He plans to sail with Mrs. Frankfurter on June 14 on the Normandie. The Justice will go to Oxford University to receive an honorary degree...
Most spectacular of Atlantic game fish are the swordfish family: sailfish, marlin, broadbill. Almost any day in the year a sailfish can be caught in the Gulf Stream off Palm Beach-and frequently anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West where the biggest Atlantic sail ever recorded (119 Ibs.) was caught in 1934. White Marlin (world's record 161 Ibs. ), presumably move up the coast from Miami in the spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic...
Train, bus, tug, trawler, clipper with bellied sail...
Minta Martin had a dream before Glenn's birth that she was up in a flying machine, a circumstance which probably gives Glenn Martin title to the earliest aeronautical propensity in the airplane business. She gave him a sheet to sail his wagon before the Kansas wind. She saw him begin to tinker with machinery and at night read him newspaper articles about the flight experiments of Chanute and Lilienthal. She was just as pleased when he made himself an expert mechanic by working in a garage as she was when he studied business at Kansas Wesleyan...