Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rivers meet, lies diminutive Governor's Island, known to military men as Fort Jay. Ceded to the U. S. in 1800, it was once a prime factor in Manhattan's defense. Iron cannon balls fired from it could repulse enemy ships riding up the harbor under full sail. Time brought changes in defense methods, supplied mines, air corps, long-range coast artillery out at Sandy Hook, left Fort Jay a quaint military relic with restful officers' homes, trim lawns, untrafficked roads, under the towered shadow of lower Manhattan...
...many an aviation expert, to Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. LaGuardia, Governor's Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
...Cuban Ambassador prepared to sail for Havana, where there is almost always a cool breeze. At the Brazilian Embassy there was a great packing of trunks and boxes for a move to the Adirondacks...
...Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered him to sail for the Venezuelan mainland, 40 miles away. Capt. Morris agreed...
...English collegians are to sail for Montreal on Friday, and they will meet a picked team in the Canadian metropolis on July 6, before entering the United States for its meet in the Stadium The Oxford-Cambridge team, as was the case in 1925 also will meet a combined team of Princeton and Cornell athletes on teh Saturday following the Harvard-Yale engagement...