Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capt. John White. With him Capt. White took his daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare. The ships made land at Cape Hatteras on July 22, cruised up what is now Pamlico Sound to the "iland called Roanoac" where the colonists were dumped ashore. Two vessels immediately spread sail for England. A fort was built, homes staked out. On Aug. 18 Eleanor Dare bore a daughter who was named Virginia after the Raleigh colony. She was the first English child born in America. Nine days later (Aug. 27) her grandfather, Capt. White, sailed back to England in the third ship...
...scene in which the stump of his bitten leg is seared with a hot iron and a closeup of him finally cutting his vengeance out of the whale that took the leg. Other great shots: the shanghaied crew of murderers; enlarged projections of the whaler under full sail in a choppy sea, wild-eyed Ahab battling a storm. The shot of the amputation was included, somewhat differently, in The Sea Beast, but the whole picture is new, entirely reconstructed and rephotographed...
Last week Methodist Bishop Herbert Welch (North) was on the Pacific coast. The first week of September he will sail from Vancouver for Korea on the Empress of Japan. With him will be Bishop James Chamberlain Baker (North) of Korea. At Seoul they will convene with Bishop William Benjamin Beauchamp (South), seven other U. S. Methodist clergymen and ten Koreans to organize a Methodist Church of Korea...
...Brooklyn, Charles Herzog and Fritz Vogel wrote to rubber companies asking for a big rubber ball in which they proposed to sail to Europe with no motive power or steering device other than the wind. They planned to take food and water for three months. They said they had been watching how Herzog's small daughter's toy balloon floated at the beach. Two concerns were interested...
...held his breath and dithered with excitement while a Negro diver went over the side of a boat from which Mr. Wood was trolling off Balboa, C. Z. The diver disentangled from the propeller Mr. Wood's fishline, at the end of which was a 10-ft., 127-lb. sail fish, which Mr. Wood then landed...