Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lover of things nautical and of sailing ships in particular, I rise in protest against your description of the Gertrude L. Thebaut as a "full-rigged schooner" [TIME, Dec. 14]. Webster defines full-rigged as "having three or more masts, each with its full complement of square sails." As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition. A full-rigged schooner would be as anomalous as a two-legged centipede...
...Reader Bush is not so salty as he thinks. A full-rigged ship and a schooner are two things. But of late years so many Gloucester fishing schooners have been built "bald-headed"-that is, without topmasts or topsails-that to distinguish the few which still carry all their rigging, it is expedient to speak of full-rigged schooners. A centipede may have anywhere from 38 to 400 legs...
...line of ordinary duty, eight Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen and an 80-ton auxiliary schooner made the first west-to-east water voyage through America's cold, difficult, twisting Northwest Passage. Landing on the Atlantic coast last week, two and a quarter years after they left the Pacific, the men neither expected, asked for, nor got leave. Sergeant Henry Larsen, their leader, brushed off compliments on his extraordinary feat with the remark that other trips had been harder...
...crew of the St. Roch set out in June 1940 to: 1) take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...
...gave up the cinema to live on his sailboat, went to work for the United Seamen's Service as director of entertainment for all the merchant mariners' clubs and rest homes. Her office hours in Manhattan: 9 to 5 every day. Hayden is now master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby Holman is slated...