Word: skim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chartered for a lengthy cruise by Papal Knight MacDonald. Manned by 50 sailors, 300-foot, 14-cabined, the lamara is the largest yacht in European waters. Once before, in 1927, had Sir George taken the Cardinal cruising, but that had been in the Caribbean. This time his yacht will skim the storied waters of the Mediterranean, carry them to Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, return the Cardinal to Rome in time for the Pope's Golden Jubilee...
...crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...
...Charter Subscriber Smith, all thanks for his sharp watch. TIME reviewers never skim; do, sometimes without good reason, sleep...
...physicist, Dr. Arrhenius turned to his formulas and calculated that sunbeams were their express trains. Now and again Venus gets directly between the sun and the earth. The sun's rays skim the surface of the planet, picking up any adventurous thermophilic bacteria that are in the way and shooting them to earth. The trip takes only two days and the speed is so great that many would survive the cold interstellar spaces they whiz through on the journey...
...Skim ten to twenty-eight feet of water off the surface of Lake Ontario. Pour it into the Mississippi River basin from Cairo, 111., to the Gulf. The resultant swamp will be a mild picture of the conditions which Spring-swollen rivers actually produced in the lower Mississippi valley last week...