Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented arrangement with the Italian Government she was allowed to sail under Papal register, flying the flag of the new Papal State (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929), which no ocean liner has ever flown before, and triumphantly carrying to the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage that potent Prince of the Church Alexis Henri Cardinal Lepicier, august Papal delegate. After her, under Italian flag and register, steamed the S.S. Argentina crammed with Eucharistic pilgrims...
...effect kidnaped by due process of law? The crushing mental and moral stresses set up by his movement had caused the nervous breakdown, earlier in the week, of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, chief commissioner of the North West Frontier Prince. In a state of emotional collapse Sir Horatio sailed for England, beaten by weapons beyond his ken, as St. Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official communique last week that the conduct...
...oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded at Bivalve, and 500 sloops hurried down the two-mile stretch to the seed beds...
...sailed day & night; in bad weather sat up, in good weather set his course, lashed the wheel, turned in. At whatever islands he touched he would make repairs, revictual, play tennis or football if he could. He kept fit. The Firecrest had no auxiliary engine, but Gerbault almost never accepted a tow in or out of harbor, liking the excitement of closely calculated navigation under sail. From the South Seas he went through Torres Strait across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, north to St. Helena, to the Cape Verde Islands (where he stayed ten months...
Gerbault plans another trip. His new boat, also to be called Firecrest, is now abuilding, should be ready in September. In October, Gerbault plans to hoist sail, head for the South Seas...