Word: nyala
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Petersburg-Havana, Havana-Key West, the Honolulu, and Detroit-Mackinac races; Lulu, winner of the Prince of Wales Cup in 1937; Nyala, winner of the Astor and King's Cups in 1939; Harold Vanderbilt's 12-meter Vim, winner of the same cups the next year; Goose, the outstanding international 6-meter for ten years; the New York Yacht Club's 325 and some 700 other yachts...
...Harold S. Vanderbilt's Vim: the King's Cup, No. 1 U. S. yachting trophy; defeating two other twelve-meter sloops, Van S. Merle-Smith's Northern Light and Fred T. Bedford's Nyala, over a 17 ½-mile course; off Marblehead, Mass. Though it was the first victory for two-year-old Vim, it was the seventh time Skipper Vanderbilt had won the cup put up in 1912 by England's George...
...Twelves are 68 ft. long, cost around $40,000, are popular in the Scandinavian countries and the British Isles. There are only a dozen Twelves in the U. S. Winner last week was Alfred Loomis' Northern Light which, although tied on total points with Frederick Bedford's Nyala, was awarded the championship because it had won two first places during the week to Nyala...
...finest antelope in Africa, the Giant Sable, an animal with the lines of a thoroughbred horse, is nearly extinct. The Nyala, once abundant, the Mountain Nyala and the Barbary Stag, have been shot down to scattered survivors...