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Word: sylph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about two months, the Williamsburg will be the sixth in her line. In the Republic's first struggling century, U.S. Presidents went yachtless. But in 1893, as the head of a rising naval power, Grover Cleveland took to cruising aboard the gunboat Dolphin. McKinley sailed in the Sylph, and by the time Roosevelt I took over the hefty (2,690-ton) Mayflower, a yacht was considered standard office equipment for a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: U. S. S. Williamsburg | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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