Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he steered his 70-foot schooner into Miami, Fla., last week, 46-year-old Oilman Baker had fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to make his fortune and then go for a good long sail. With the same daring and dynamic enthusiasm that characterized his younger brother, the late, great Hobart ("Hobey") Baker, who has been immortalized since his Wartime death as the greatest U. S. college hockey player of all time. Skipper Baker, accompanied by two sons and a crew of three, had just completed a 30,000-mile cruise from Hong Kong...
That cruise started in March 1937 when the Bakers christened their American-designed, Chinese-built schooner So Fong (which they were told meant "everything beautiful in woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...
Over 80 members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. will sail the Spanish Main on the annual summer practice cruise of the unit this summer. Last summer the marines visited San Juan, Porto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Kingston, Jamaica...
...Basin Saturday the Yachtsmen will chase the Bruins around the buoys, while on Sunday, the M.I.T. navy is scheduled to sail with the Crimson. Yardling boatsmen will travel north to race Dartmouth on the Sabbath...
...time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think, has all the makings of a good dictator and perhaps we ought to vote him President for life. He can sail a boat, has a pleasant smile, a warm heart, a beautiful mother, and he's well read...