Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they could not drive them for fear of losing one of their two suits of old sails, losing all the voyage's small margin of profit. As compared to a clipper ship's one able seaman for every 100 register tons, they had one to every 1,000 register tons. Most of the crews are 17-year-old boys who want to serve in square-rigged sail, required by many governments to qualify for officers' papers in the merchant service. They are paid from...
Last March Villiers sailed as second mate with Captain de Cloux on the Parma. two months behind the first of the fleet. Mate Villiers had served as seaman in two previous races. Members of the big crew of 32 were the Captain's daughter Marie Ann and one Elizabeth Jacobsen, 19, pretty, brawny daughter of a retired Brooklyn sea-captain. There were 14 other apprentices. On the voyage Villiers made a film with Miss Jacobsen (screen alias: Sonia Lind) cast as heroine. Captain de Cloux's chief rivals were the Herzogin Cecilie with which...
Most of the best clothes received are distributed within the College, while the rest are distributed to needy individuals and charitable institutions around Boston. The books are added to the P. B. H. Loan Library, and are rented during the year. Magazines are given to the Seaman's Institute and other organizations requesting them. The Settlement Houses in Boston receive most of the athletic equipment donated by the students...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager, Luis Gutierrez, by misbehaving instead of training. After a month's rest, Champion Chocolate will go abroad for four bouts, one of them a return match against Seaman Watson in London...