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Word: yachting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sailing three boats in each of four races on the Charles yesterday afternoon, the freshman yacht club defeated Andover, 55 to 50. The score was tied at 39 each at the start of the last race. Tom Carroll was top skipper with 24 out of a possible 28 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Beat Andover | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

Swarthy, suave Alberto Dodero knew what he wanted to do with his money. He bought a yacht, a plane, a fleet of cars, elaborate homes near Buenos Aires and Montevideo, in New York, London, Paris and Cannes. He entertained like a Croesus, invited scores of guests for a lobster supper as casually as he brought five kilos of white truffles from Rome. During summers on the Riviera he spent an estimated $50,000 a week for entertainment. He had a sharp eye-as well as the gifts of a Santa Claus-for pretty women. He has been twice married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Abdication of a Tycoon | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, May 15--Pete Putnam and Frank Scullay skippered the Crimson into second place in the Ivy sailing championships yesterday and today at Brown University's Edgewood Yacht Club. The ten-race series for 12-ft. dinghies was won by Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Place Second In Ivy Championships | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...sailing teams goes after the Ivy championship today and tomorrow at the Brown University Yacht Club when it meets seven other eastern colleges in a series of races split in half by a beer party tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sails for Ivy Title | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

Floating Luggage. The Pasado was a yacht all right, but she had been built in the mid-'20s to accommodate six people. The 96-foot vessel had done a hitch in the Coast Guard during the war, and she was greasy, grimy and sooty. Later the passengers agreed that they should have backed out right then & there. But Charlie said things would be cleaned up on the way to Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Enchanted Voyage | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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