Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labrador coast to fish for cod. In this large colony of fisher folk, however, there are no opportunities for medical or educational attention, and it was to meet this great need for medical service, that Dr. Grenfell equipped his first hospital, which took the form of a small schooner...
During the winter of 1923 a visit was made to the west coast of Chile. There, two miles off Pichidangui, was located the wreck of the British schooner Cape Horn, which went down in 1869 with a cargo of copper, lying in 53 fathoms (318 ft.) of water. Captain Leavitt declares that in some of his searches he went down to 60 fathoms (360 ft.). When the wreck was discovered, a difficulty came up. At 53 fathoms it was almost pitch dark; there was not enough light to work...
...vicissitudes of life. Once he immortalized himself by sweeping to the southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture was one of the causes of his bankruptcy...
...maintained a summer home in Pendleton, Ore., ever since. He visited among the Indian tribes of the West for a year, and in 1914 he won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the bucking bull "Sharkey." The same year he crossed the Alantic in a 22 ton schooner and proceeded to the north and west coasts of Africa where he explored many islands...
...safe, homeward bound, with all on board well. Our little 88-foot schooner, which has been frozen in the ice for 320 days, eleven degrees from the North Pole, has poked her way down the coast of Greenland almost on schedule. We should reach Labrador in a few days and Wiscasset, Me., by Sept...