Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's Cup. With the sailing as it has been conducted off Newport refined to the point in which boats and men are made so sensitive they are almost machinelike, the champions of the Gloucester and Lunenberg fleets make a healthy contrast. There is no hierarchy of yacht racing associations, of new tank-tested boats every year. The false atmosphere of tailored yachting uniforms, professionals who groom the sleek boats for "amateurs" to take the tiller in the races and a society that goes with them are all missing. Perhaps the cup yachts and their smaller sisters...
Probably the most fortunate of all the yacht clubs on the Eastern seaboard, the Harvard Yacht Club came out of the recent hurricane with its fleet of three dinghies safely stowed in Weld Boat House...
Over the summer the Yacht Club won the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship through the skillful sailing of Philip Reed Jr. '40 and John F. Kennedy '40 and their crews sailing at Wiano last June...
...sweep around Coney Island into Gravesend Bay in New York Harbor, seagoing, 23-year-old Cowboy William J. ("Tex") Langford poked the nose of a $100 put-put in which he had sputtered down from Boston. Moored just off the pier he tied up to was a slim, long yacht hull. The masts were off her, she could have done with some swabbing, but to Tex's longing eyes she was a jimdandy. To a benign-looking stranger gazing off to sea he said so. Then things took a fairy-tale turn. "Glad you like her," said the stranger...
...Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new president. The jittery board finally picked the one man they thought could steer them out of trouble-Henry George Stebbins, a skilled yachtsman who later became commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Under President Stebbins the New York Stock Exchange weathered the Panic, headed for the dazzling days of the Civil War boom...