Word: windstrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gently Enterprise's clean white nose splashed at the water. Skipper Vanderbilt looked her over: below, where some of the rigging comes down through the hollow metal mast; on deck, where many new mechanical gadgets are?the "sliding-foot" boom, the instrument for indicating windstrain on the mast?that caused his boat to be called "mechanical" by conservative sea-dogs. Aboard the shiny green Shamrock V Edward ("Ted") Heard, Sir Thomas's professional Captain, looked his boat over. She had not many gadgets, but her aged owner, on his Erin, had a good-luck message from President Cosgrave...
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