Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny cargo vessel called the Dynamo, did trust his young brother Christakis well enough to get them both free. One night last week, as the Dynamo's captain, Vassilis Kotzis, and two Communist soldiers assigned to guard his cargo of flour and tires were waiting to set sail in the harbor at Valona Athanassios turned up on board with a surprise-some rare white bread, cheese and good red wine. "From a cousin's wedding," he explained as he disappeared into the galley to prepare the feast...
...happy occasion in the House of Commons. Sir Winston Churchill bade his sovereign a formal bon voyage and compared her globe-girdling trip with that of Sir Francis Drake, the first English captain to sail around the world. "It may well be that the journey which the Queen is about to take will be no less auspicious," said her majesty's first minister...
Morehead Patterson (Yale '20, Oxford, and Harvard Law School '24) joined his father's firm in 1926 after he had taken a one-year fling at the law. He watched the company, with its cushion of royalties, sail through the Depression, paying dividends every year. But he decided that no company could expect to live on its patents forever. Says Patterson: "We could tell by 1938 that after 1946 we were going to have dividends of only half of what we had been counting...
After attending Anatolia, a small college in Marsovan, which offered only one course in his chosen field, he decided to sail to America in 1913. "Harvard was the only college I had heard of, and after just two years of college I was very lucky to be able to do graduate work. I guess America has really been the land of opportunity for me," he states...
...funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple, a W.C.T.U. member quizzed Joaquin on his inspiration. "Whisky, ma'am," said Joaquin...