Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...that very purpose. ... I hope to challenge in 1932. . . .' Meanwhile on the Olympic arrived Captain Irving Johnson, mate of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on the return voyage to England after the America's Cup races. He told briefly what can happen to a little sailing boat trying to cross the north Atlantic in October. "Seven times we scudded straight through hell and out again. ..." Shamrock left Narragansett Bay Oct. 2. The only man going back who had been on her coming over was Captain William Paul, navigator. He went because he had signed a contract...
According to Mr. Wernette the commission, which will sail from New York City on Friday, January 2, has been invited to Peru by the government which has been in power there since the revolution of last summer...
Students of the history of science may well date the birth of modern Oceanography from December 21, 1872, the day when the Challenger set sail from Ports-mouth, England, on her memorable voyage. Thenceforth, with every fresh venture below the surface of the sea, such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three...
Great object of the agreement is that not more than one ship of the combine shall sail from a given port on a given day. This will affect hordes of longshoremen, freight handlers, railwaymen, harbor workers...
...attitude was reflected in the box office returns. The Cos sacks gave performances in Greenwich (Conn.), Philadelphia, Montclair (N. J.), & Richmond, three more Manhattan ones, then started their tour.* Individual artists rarely perform more than three times a week. The Don Cossacks will sing practically every night until they sail back to Europe in mid-December...