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Word: yachts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powder machine. He is an able musician, likes a violin. Once he organized and conducted a band at the powder-works, composed stirring marches. The Marine Band recently tried to get copies of them but found he has given up music, destroyed his manuscripts. His hobby now is his yacht Alicia (named for his second wife), designed by him; his pet is a much pampered mongrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida's Helper | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Admonished through calm foggy days by a soft choir of foghorns, harbor whistles and bell buoys; winked at on clear evenings by shore-lights and lighthouses, 50 of the finest U.S. sailing ships set out last fortnight on the annual cruise of the New York Yacht Club, principal U.S. yachting event of any summer when there is no racing for the America's Cup. Riding at anchor in Newport before the first day's run was Weetamoe, which Frederick H. Prince of Boston had purchased from the members of the Weetamoe Syndicate and which had won three races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts & Yachtsmen | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Though dull weather made the New York Yacht Club cruise, like several regattas this year, slightly disappointing, U.S. yachtsmen have enjoyed a lively summer. Instead of racing for the America's Cup, there was the transatlantic race, won by Olin J. Stephens' yawl Dorade which, still in British waters last week, also won the Cowes-Fastnet-Plymouth race. Gales made a majority of the boats in the Fastnet race seek port before the finish; they caused the second death of the year in British yachting when Col. C.H. Hudson, joint owner of Maitenes II was swept overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts & Yachtsmen | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...members of the Havana Yacht Club, the waiters, cooks and hall porters eyed each other bitterly last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: War for Machado | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Yacht Club has been a hotbed of anti-Machado intrigue ever since a member of Dictator Machado's Cabinet was snubbed by a Yacht Club member last December and President Gerardo Machado, El Gallo ("The Rooster"), pad locked the clubhouse in retaliation. Fort night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: War for Machado | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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