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Word: yachting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported huge lizards, other peculiar fauna. Two years ago they flashed into the news, with a dramatic mystery no Sunday-feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil, exploded. Two corpses had been found on a neighboring island. "The Empress of Floreana" and her No. 1 lover had disappeared (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Of the couple who had been the original settlers the man had mysteriously died. Last week U. S. readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galapagonistics | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person as he had talked in his editorials and speeches, whether the onetime Columbia professor was preparing to replace Louis Howe as the Boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY,THE CONGRESS: Boss Man & No Man | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peewee's Progress | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot: The Captain (Edgar Kennedy) of Dr. Dakin's yacht showing Kay Brannan how to steer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...president of Missouri's St. Joseph Lead Co. (largest U. S. lead producer); the William Lawrence Saunders medal, top award of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. Born to well-to-do parents in New Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family had a fat block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: End-of-Season Honors | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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