Word: skippered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less sanguine than they had been about Rainbow. Weetamoe, sailed by Richard Boardman, had beaten her off wind and on over a 34-mile course, by a mile and a half. There was an 18-mile breeze, just the kind of weather Yankee likes, for the fifth race but Skipper Adams went to the Harvard commencement exercises while Rainbow nosed out Weetamoe...
...only men in sight to relieve the skipper are Fred Allan and Drib Braggiotti. Allan has pitched victories against Cornell and Pennsylvania. Both games were loosely handled. In both Allan got into holes, but showed the ability to pull himself out again. Braggiotti, on the other hand, in the small amount he has been used, has shown a deliberate, steady style of work. He has yet to be fully tried and has never started a League game. These three men are of vital importance if the Crimson is to emerge at the top of the League. Just how good Harvard...
...Abram Kean is no gaffer doddering over his memories by a cottage fireside. Last week from the desolate ice fields off Labrador flashed the news that Captain Kean, having piled 4,000 sculps aboard his ship Beothic that day, had become the first skipper in history to bag 1,000,000 seals...
...sealer's life has eased since Captain Kean first went out. Now ships are powered to escape grinding ice and most of them are built of steel. Airplanes fly .ahead to spot seal herds from the sky. Daily weather reports radioed from Toronto and Washington tell the skipper when to keep his men off the ice. But sealing is still no sport for milksops as any sealer will attest when, huddling behind an ice pinnacle after a ducking, he strips to a cutting wind, wrings out his icy clothes and tugs them back...
...benefit of photographers the ceremony was repeated. Then the President went up the gangplank, putting Governor, Mayor, secretary, photographers, newsmen behind. With Vincent Astor on the bridge beside his cheerful, ruddy-faced skipper Captain Gustav Klang, the Nourmahal nosed carefully down the 18-mile reach of river toward the open sea. Behind her like a vigilant watchdog for the fortnight's cruise glided the U. S. destroyer Ellis...