Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When exquisite Governor-General Pasquier announced that he must go to Paris, cunning plotters so dexterously tampered the ship on which he planned to sail that His Excellency actually went aboard in full regalia and settled down in his suite de luxe before it was discovered that the propellers would not work...
...President Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in regal style (promising to be back in three months), yet another revolution popped...
...Bigelow '01, associate professor of zoology and curator of oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and C. O'D. Iselin '16, his assistant, will sail within the next few weeks for Denmark where they will conduct work in connection with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, of which Dr. Bigelow is director...
...Iselin will sail on Friday, April 10 to supervise the finishing operations on the ketch, Atlantis, which is being built in Denmark for the Woods Hole Institute. The 142 foot steel boat was put in the water recently but is yet far from completion. The ship when completed will be powered by a 300 horse-power diesel motor and four sails. Costing $175,000 the ketch will have two laboratories, ten tons of wire rope, and quarters...
Iselin, who is to be master of the ketch on its cruises, declared yesterday that the craft would be completed by June 1 and would sail about July 1 on its maiden voyage. A graduate and a student of Harvard will have charge of a part of the scientific work on the two months voyage. G. L. Clarke '27 will direct all of the biological investigation. The necessary chemical analyses of samples and physical observations will be done by R. B. Montgomery...