Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furlong then gave a brief account of the trip: "We left Newport in the spring of 1916 in a 22 ton schooner, the 'Kitty A'. Its dimensions were 53 feet in length and 16 feet beam, one of the smallest vessels to cross the Atlantic. The members of our research party were Dr. William Erving of John Hopkins, Mr. Harry Armony of Harvard who owned and navigated the schooner, my-self and crew. The purpose of the expedition was to collect zoological specimens, especially of the bird life of the West African Island and to make a general study...
...weary of these annual, bitter bickerings. When international track-meets, horse races, and debates have by good-sportsmanship only confirmed Anglo-American harmony, one may begin to wonder if the two countries had not better disown their pugnacious fishermen. The races were instituted to develope a more efficient commercial schooner, not an eggshell yacht. When each race becomes a question of the validity of measurements before trustees of the international trophy, it no longer stands as a test of the best schooner in North American waters. There should be either less regulation and a more powerful committee, or a change...
...nowhere Adam Trent arrives on board the pirate brig. Immediately preceding him comes Hilda Borner, beautiful maiden from a captured schooner in the time honored guise for maidens aboard pirate brig-cabin boy's gear. Promptly Trent subdues the crew. Promptly Trent falls in love with her. Promptly the crew, too, discover her sex. There follow ominous and entertaining rattles of the daggers of romantic drama...
Harold Noice, a Canadian, left Nome on Aug. 3 on the schooner Donaldson, to relieve Crawford and place another man on the island. The Soviet authorities of Siberia plan to capture the relief party and the Crawford " settlement...
...what could be better in warm weather like this, than a shipload of conveniently opposed viewpoints, outside the three-mile limit, with a fair breeze and a cool coral island as destination. I should like to describe the Tusitala. I think that it is a three-masted, square-rigged schooner. Is that right, my salty lads...