Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are busy at home weaving nets for artillery camouflage. The special naval rank of "Skipper" is accorded their captains, and when they talk with His Majesty's officers they don't bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work it is they do, having a mine-sweeping fleet...
That was all for Joy Allen Duncan and her Auntie, who, Joy neglected to say, lost her 13-year-old daughter in the sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...
...that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...
Early one morning last week, 115 days after the submarine Squahis sank off the New Hampshire coast, salvage boats tugged her to drydock at Portsmouth Navy Yard. On hand to watch the grim job of opening her hatch were her skipper, Lieut. Oliver Naquin, and 27 of 32 fellow survivors...
...celebrate their fifth annual championship last week the Comets went back to their birthplace. From as far north as Skaneateles, N. Y., as far south as Puerto Rico, they came: 41 of them, with skippers ranging from dainty, 14-year-old Sally Wilcox (who had her father as crew) to salty, 59-year-old Edward Merrill, last year's champion. After three days of racing, over a six-mile course, 22-year-old Robert Levin of Beverly, N. J. hoisted the championship pennant-scoring 109½ points with his Bad News. Runner-up, only 5½ points behind...