Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1893, when the country was in the midst of the free silver debate, President Cleveland secretly had a cancer removed from his upper left jaw. Dr. Erdmann went along. "The yacht Oneida, owned by the late E. C. Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning...
Paced by Johnny Burton's 33 points, the Harvard Yacht Club sailed yesterday to a 19 point victory over Dartmouth in the Coast Guard's Quadrangular Regatta held at New London, Conn. Yale and the Coast Guard were held to a third place tie, 26 points behind the Noyes-lead Crimson team...
...shades of Dartmouth still lingered yesterday when the Indians met Harvard, M.I.T., and Brown in the annual yacht race for the Jack Wood Trophy. The M.I.T. Engineers piloted their team to victory by accumulating a total of 186 points...
...aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
There were some lean years for the firm in a land that had apparently forgotten all about ships and shipping. Gibbs & Cox designed the world's largest yacht, the Savarona, for the late Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, equipped it as ordered with public-address system, mother-of-pearl inlaid bathrooms, gold-plated doorknobs. They also designed the Santa boats for the Grace Line. But not until the U.S. Government decided to embark on a destroyer program did Gibbs & Cox really get under...