Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next October she will set sail for the Orient, member of a commission appointed by a group of potent Protestant laymen to study missions in the Far East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson...
Back on the cay the little party built a fire that night to attract passing ships, but none came. Next day Missionary Knowles and two of the crew improvised a sail and mast, set out for Acklin Island, 17 miles away. The Bishop, Miss Shedden and the rest of the crew waited that long day, marooned. Then came a Turk's Island sailing sloop which Missionary Knowles had encountered. But not until a week after that did Nassau get the news, send out a launch to fetch home its boating Bishop...
...Shedden resigned as Bishop. The yacht disaster, he said, merely clinched an earlier determination to quit because, as he had told his good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury the diocese needed a change some time and he had done as much good as possible. Next week he will sail for England where, observers guessed, he will be rewarded with a diocese...
Saturday afternoon at Philadelphia, the third University crew, which will soon sail for England, scored a decisive victory for the W. S. R. Brown Challenge Cup, defeating Princeton and Pennsylvania in that order. The University 150-pound eight, after placing second to Navy and defeating Cornell and Columbia qualified for the Joseph Wright Challenge Cup in the American Henley, but was last in the final event...
...Diamond indictment and subsequent assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...