Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp., six feet tall, towering and blocky as a full-rigged schooner, took a gavel in his great fist last week. He thwacked the speaker's table smartly and the 14th yearly convention of the National Foreign Trade Council went into three-day convention at Detroit. Mr. Farrell organized the Council in 1914 and has always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across...
...scientific-romantic vein which characterizes his writings, he excited newsgatherers with stories of prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate with a lead pencil...
Daniel Simonds '28 will sail his schooner "Nicanor" across the Atlantic this summer to participate in the Fastnet race, the English long distance ocean race corresponding to the American yachtsman's Bermuda race...
...cruise of the schooner Morrissey was undertaken last summer under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. Its object was two-fold: to investigate in North Greenland the life of the Eskimos, now fast disappearing, and to secure specimens of the sea mammals and fish of that region...
...case of "out of the frying pan, into the fire," for the tusks of the walrus had pierced the boat. Just as the water came over the edge, the boat reached the schooner, saving the men from a dangerous fall among the walrus...