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Word: sark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Richard Woodget, 82, captain of the Cutty Sark, famed British clipper of the 70's, with which he made astounding records in the Australian wool trade (3,457 miles in eleven days); in Norfolk County, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Shearer, whose wife, sharp of nose and tongue, came from Péche à Agneau in the island of Sark, ran the George. Daniel, his son, was the friend of Ernley Munk, the heir to the Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Cold Pastoral | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

There was no comfort for Daniel in Bullockdean with the girl he loved in another man's bed across the street. So he said good-by to his mother, who had never cared much for him, and went to live with her people, the laughing citizens of Sark. One night, on a haymaker's holiday, he visited a dance hall, found there a girl who was about to go on the streets. Reflecting that she might as well appropriate the tatters of his own dereliction, he took her to wife in a cottage fronting the golden fields, walled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Cold Pastoral | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

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