Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of these documents is incalculable. The first would seem to set at rest the many alarms of those who have thought that Italy had colonial designs on Turkey. The pacts with Persia and Afghanistan are fresh documentary evidence of the fact that there is now in formation a Middle East Entente...
...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
...John McCormack, tenor, frequently orders a new set of his own phonograph records...
...small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail and jib set and full. Suddenly, a squall hit little Rofa...
...Everybody worked like beavers chopping away the gear and freeing the floating masts. Then we set up a low-rigged square sail which steadied the Rofa. The squall lasted 20 minutes and the weather was calmer for the rest of the day. As darkness began falling, we were aware that we had to get some assistance and we discharged six Very rockets...