Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black, wealthy Charles E. Mitchell of West Virginia State College was at the U. S. State Department last week, conferring with Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson, preparing to sail for Monrovia as President Hoover's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the little black Republic of Liberia...
More than any other time of year it was Cuba-time last week-time to sail into Havana Harbor and remember the Maine, time to watch Corona Corona cigars being made in a factory across the street from Cuba's presidential palace, time to tennis, golf and swim at La Playa de Marianoa ("Cuba's Monte Carlo"), finally time to go down and see "Cuba's Mussolini," President Gerardo Machado y Morales, who has just locked 1,000 smart, socialite, yacht-owning Cubans out of their own Havana Yacht Club because a potent member of the Dictator...
...that very purpose. ... I hope to challenge in 1932. . . .' Meanwhile on the Olympic arrived Captain Irving Johnson, mate of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on the return voyage to England after the America's Cup races. He told briefly what can happen to a little sailing boat trying to cross the north Atlantic in October. "Seven times we scudded straight through hell and out again. ..." Shamrock left Narragansett Bay Oct. 2. The only man going back who had been on her coming over was Captain William Paul, navigator. He went because he had signed a contract...
According to Mr. Wernette the commission, which will sail from New York City on Friday, January 2, has been invited to Peru by the government which has been in power there since the revolution of last summer...
Students of the history of science may well date the birth of modern Oceanography from December 21, 1872, the day when the Challenger set sail from Ports-mouth, England, on her memorable voyage. Thenceforth, with every fresh venture below the surface of the sea, such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three...