Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extensive study of all the stories which have been told about sea-monsters, and he has come to some definite conclusions. He points out that there are many objects and animals which may be mistaken for sea-serpents, such as rocky reefs, flocks of gulls, whales, oarfish, or sail-fish. The famed "Loch Ness" seen in Scottish waters was probably a gray seal, warped out of shape by a few bottles of old Scotch brew...
...star team picked from all the rugby players in the East will meet Cambridge on Saturday, April 14 in New York. This will climax the series, and the English team will sail for home shortly afterwards...
...White House press conference last week a newshawk popped a question at President Roosevelt that seemed as irrelevant to the day's doings as the pictured ships which sail endlessly around the walls of the President's office. What, asked he, did the President think about important Democratic politicians who camp-followed the New Deal into Washington and set themselves up as lawyer-lobbyists to handle private matters for fat fees before Government departments...
...bathed skimpy little King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...
...Argentine rebels shot up several rural areas and President Justo, after placing the entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions was "crushed." It was started, he charged, by friends of the late but deathlessly popular President Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen...