Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Committee (to talk politics). ¶From the U. S. fish hatchery at Nashua, N. H. 320 adult trout were shipped to Virginia where they will be put into the Rapidan River for President Hoover & friends to catch. ¶ President Hoover instructed Secretary of State Stimson to sail this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice last week President Hoover conferred with Norman Hezekiah Davis, a U. S. delegate at the Geneva parley...
With hopes of finding further connecting links between the areas of high cultural development in the Aegean region on one hand and central and northern Europe on the other, a Harvard expedition will sail on Wednesday, April 20, to continue excavations in Jugoslavia begun during a two-week survey last summer...
...bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled for him, but grappled in vain. Sadly they set sail for Manhasset to wait another year...
Sailors muttered discontentedly in the shadow of limp sails. Low water rations, salt meat, and a glaring sun. A pensive figure paced back and forth in the bows. The horizontal beams of the afternoon sun were probing a cloud-bank in the East. A dark, jagged line broke the horizon where the clouds parted. The figure in the bow started and stared a moment. "Land, ho!" The caked dirt cracked on the seamen's cheeks in the deep furrows of broad grins. Rotting shirts split across the shoulders as the men leaped to their feet. Not every man could have...
...ride,one of his own horses at Aintree next year. Preparing for this year's Grand National on March 18, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, affable young vice president of Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and nephew of Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, last week packed his bags in Manhattan to sail for England on the Bremen. Waiting for him there were his two Grand National entries, Alike and Glangesia. Alike won one of the Grand National trials a year ago but finished the race far back in the field, while Glangesia came in seventh. Glangesia, a 12-year-old Irish horse...