Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat. Since King Raedwald was a Christian convert, archeologists surmised that when he died in the year 617 he let his body be interred with Christian rites. But to be doubly sure that he would reach a safe harbor, his pagan subjects launched the funeral ship, let it sail without...
...tony ones stayed at cozy Holly Tree Inn. But most of the spectators as well as the players bunked in the barrack-like dormitories on the campus. For five days they watched the tennis and for five nights they fraternized: a get-together reception, a watermelon feast, a moonlight sail, moving pictures and a climactic Grand Ball...
After retracing part of Columbus' first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go to Honduras to pick up his fourth voyage. They expect to end their expedition in Haiti, February...
Most skippers like to have two weeks or more to get acquainted with strange winds and tides. Skipper Nichols, however, arriving in Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once...
...Washington, the onetime second lieutenant in the U. S. Marines tucked in at the Waldorf-Astoria, went off on another round of receptions, including a 21 -gun salute at the World's Fair. General Trujillo's next stop, said he, would be Paris, whither he will sail in a fortnight to pick up his wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second child.* The General's trip to Europe (his first) is supposedly as private and unofficial as his junket to the U. S. But since he has French ancestors and has been decorated...