Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popularity is due to his sea-roving expeditions through the allied blockades during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world...
Count Luckner is one of the best known World War figures and is famous because of his daring raids conducted with a camouflaged schooner. He has been decorated several times for bravery and for chivalrous treatment of his prisoners...
...backbone of most of these clubs' existences is local racing. From little dinghys raced by children all the way to the largest schooner yachts in the cult of sailing speed is worshipped. Many, particularly inland clubs, race roaring motor boats. The chief international races are between the famed 6 metre sailboats (about 35 feet on deck) for which British boats visit various foreign clubs including U. S. and U. S. boats are carried across the seas to race in foreign waters. This summer there will be a trans-pacific race to Honolulu. The King and Queen of Spain have offered...
...night on small station platforms through South Carolina, but President Coolidge slumbered efficiently. He woke up in Florida, breakfasted below Jacksonville, got off after lunch at Miami. There it was all top hats, shiny motors, swaying palms, "Hail to the Chief." Zooming airplanes, booming realty, bright blue water, a schooner wrecked by last year's hurricane, fluttering handkerchiefs, baskets of fruit, "Goodbye, Mayor Sewell"?and the Coolidge Special rolled...
Fish experts at the Museum of Comparative Zoology are still, puzzled over the strange fish which they have just received. It was caught off Brown's bank, 60 miles southwest of Nova Scotia by fishermen on the schooner Wanderer, and because it could not be identified it was packed in ice and shipped to Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...