Word: sparsely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fishermen agreed that the spars of a boat which could beat Bluenose were still in a tree, that the Thebaud was handicapped mainly by her size. But since even the Thebaud is too big to be efficient for fresh fishing, fishermen saw little sense in building a bigger challenger, little...
As a painter Marcel Mouillot's color is almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms...
There Masefield saw her. "I have seen much beauty, but she was the most beautiful thing. She was so splendid, and so distresst: she was also moving as though she were alive." In all, the Wanderer made ten long voyages, but never one without some accident. "Men fell from aloft...