Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiselers In Action" shouted a red headband and in the cover cartoon a rotund Andrew Mellon wearing J. P. Morgan's watch-chain chopped a hole in the side of the dory S. S. Recovery, apparently preferring the Rugged Individualism life preserver around his neck to the NRA sail bellying nobly from the mast...
...Bacchante's guns were muzzle loading and her speed six knots. She had an engine and a screw, but as with all naval vessels of the time the instructions were to use sail on all possible occasions. The King thus learned the old sail drill which carried Nelson to victory at Trafalgar, and served in the navy during the most eventful period of its life, when it changed from oak to iron, from muzzle loading to hydraulic loading, and from sail to steam and even...
...week. President Justo made for Sao Paulo and Santos. "The Coffee Heart of Brazil." After visiting famed Butantan Snake Farm, where deft attendants showed him how anti-snake-bite vaccine is made from venom, President Justo rode out to a typical Brazilian coffee jazenda, then embarked at Santos to sail home on the Argentine dreadnaught Moreno. He had not even reached home when an incident occurred to give a decidedly ironic twist to the peace negotiations. A cousin and a nephew of President Vargas were killed in a minor fracas with Argentine frontier guardsmen on the Uruguay River...
...Hercules" furled sail at Samos. The emissaries who were to have met Lord Byron were gone, one fled, the other captive. Ibrahim Pasha swept over Greece with fire and sword and torture, sleek with the returns which captives brought in the Egyptian slave-market. The English Lord fretted in stagnation...
...Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Like his brother Felix Jr. he is an able airplane pilot, has logged some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case...