Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippine independence reached such a pitch last week that President Hoover decided to send Patrick Jay Hurley, his Secretary of War, halfway round the globe to look into the islands' affairs. Obediently Secretary Hurley canceled a trip to Ireland to attend the Dublin Horseshow in August, arranged to sail with his wife and staff for Manila from Seattle July...
...Lang is the sort of man who would rather have a pious widow's mite than $10,000,000 not given in the proper spirit. The Archbishop would live meanly among the poor, were he not obliged to live sumptuously at Lambeth Palace. The Primate would sail to Jerusalem in a fishing smack like St. Peter's, did not J. P. Morgan insist upon taking him there on the Corsair (TIME, March...
...there is shown a journalistic record of a perilous and picturesque method of earning a livelihood. Producer Frissell secured an old-time sealing boat, the Viking, and the services of Captain Bob Bartlett, who skippered Admiral Peary to the Pole and has since realized handsomely on the exploit, to sail it. Better still, he secured a cast of 250 Newfoundland "swilers," photographed them honestly engaged in a real seal-hunt...
...combined Harvard-Yale track forces which sail for England on the George Washington July 1 with Stamford Bridge, London, as the objective, have high hopes of winning the first Crimson-Blue victory over the Oxford-Cambridge forces, on British soil since 1904. With Harvard supplying one former and two present intercollegiate champions, the combined team, under the direction of Coach Farrell and George Connors, Eli mentor, is rated strong enough to take first place in six events, with stiff competition anticipated all along the line...
...largest expedition to Australia ever undertaken by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and one of its largest expeditions in recent years, will sail on July 25 from New York City direct to Sidney, Australia, by way of the Panama Canal. William Morton Wheeler, Professor of Entomology at Harvard, will lead the expedition. The trip, made possible by a gift of an anonymous friend of the Museum, will occupy a year...