Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order to be laid before the League of Nations' Preparatory Commission on Disarmament at Geneva Nov. 6. Piloting the escort plane, to carry on in case of accident to Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over...
Most Freshmen have a secret yearning to write themes on "How to Sail a Boat", "Why the United States Should Preserve Her, Forests", and .... yes, "How to Write a Theme." All in all, it's small wonder that English A professors to quote another theme, become at times "non-plushed...
Amateur yachtsmen seldom get excited about races between the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. They feel that fishermen ignore the finer points of yachting. Furious brawls, after races off Gloucester and Cape Cod, have resulted from the claim that one boat fouled another. The fishermen sail according: to fishing rather than sporting tradition. They crowd sail on their boats at all times, not realizing that under certain conditions a boat carrying less sail will move faster. In one race with the Canadian champion, the U. S. competitor came in first because one of its topsails blew away...
Siam's King Prajadhipok announced that he and curvesome Queen Rambai will sail incognito to the U. S. next spring for removal of a four-year-old cataract from one of His Majesty's eyes. Dr. E. H. van Hasselt, noted Dutch oculist now in Java, was rushed recently from there by airplane to Bangkok, recommended that the Royal eye be knifed at "a famous American clinic" not named last week in despatches (probably Johns Hopkins...
Said Lipton, about to sail for home on the Leviathan...