Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Janeiro, winding up a 13-day, 1,200-mile sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...
...jargon of philosophers, Phillip H. Rhinelander is a paradox of being and becoming. For forty-four years' change and diversity have been second nature to him. He is a philosopher turned lawyer turned administrator. He writes, sails a yawl, plays a piano, composes light operettas and teaches Humanities 4. Perhaps his breadth of interest is fitting, for as the new Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander is at the helm of a diverse amalgam of courses that is the College's most important educational experiment of the generation...
...engineer, inventor (89 patents) and yachtsman; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. During World War I, he organized 7,000 drugstores as merchant marine enlistment centers, gained his greatest fame among amateur deep-sea sailors for his articles and books (Charting My Life) about his adventures aboard the yawl Alice...
...nation lies defenseless, a Gulliver in Lilliput with Harry Truman as the second most Lilliputian of them all and Johnson a midget among them. We have only four combat airplanes, two tanks (one being Johnson himself), five six-star generals and a converted armored yawl, once the property of Josephus Daniels...
...Henry C. Taylor's yawl Baruna, the 466-mile Newport-to-Annapolis race, over John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, last season's Bermuda race winner, by 14 min. 49 sec. (on corrected time...