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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other people never thought about. It came to him that his experience in Vera Cruz was specially planned by God as part of his training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning was not in the cards. Sure enough, the boilers burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent at Sea | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...foreign Scouts, troops from Chile and Poland, a Philippine Scout who had flown from Manila, British Columbians who had bicycled 3,500 miles, two Venezuelans who had tramped for 30 months through jungles covering the entire distance to Washington on foot. About 1,000 U. S. Scouts were to sail for a world jamboree to be held this month in The Netherlands. The thousands who were to go no farther than Washington swarmed over the foreign encampment, gathering autographs from strange places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: National Jamboree | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...marriage and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, brought around to the White House a large box full of sheets of paper. Whenever the President had nothing else to do. he spent his time signing his name on sheet after sheet. By the time he was ready to sail for South America Nov. 17, the whole boxful was used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bibliophiles | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...will sail June 29 from Shanghai on the President Hoover. No time limit is set for his return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Investigator | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...team which in the eyes of the judges consists of the best players in the country will play an exhibition game with the Crescent Athletic Club in Randall Island Stadium; New York, Wednesday evening, and will sail for England Friday for a series of international matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. Witherspoon '38 Named to All-American Lacrosse Team | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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