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Word: yachted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles River breezes will waft the Yacht Club on its way this Sunday in the first of a series of nine regating which will pit the Club against 32 colleges and universities from throughout the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Race on Charles Sunday to Open Yachting Season | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

Roosevelt & Son held a subdued celebration, in keeping with its high-stooled, high-collared conservatism. Top officers greeted clients and friends at a reception in the New York Yacht Club. Guests received copies of a newly published history of the firm entitled The Strenuous Life, the phrase made famous by the most famed of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Who Plants, Tends | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Majesty, Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Road Block | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion in Summit, N.J. She started as secretary to Louis Keller, the Register's founder, who hired her because "she could spell and get yacht names right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Five Years After | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...bought a Rolls-Royce, a Chevrolet, a yacht, rented a flat in London, built himself a luxurious ?22,000 house in Grantham. He threw lavish parties. And when he stood for Parliament as a champion of the little people, the grateful little people of Grantham elected him, twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Amazing Mr. Kendall | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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