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...small-boat sailor knows. Nonetheless, when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series, it was an unprecedented achieve- ment. But it did not win him the title. He was disqualified once more, this time without question, for fouling the windward mark on the 10½-mi. course. The title went to Waterhouse, who won the last race by finishing three seconds behind Movie Star II. A handsome, mustachioed San Francisco captain, Waterhouse had kept well up among the leaders in the earlier races, built up a point total...
Many an old and conservative institution has altered its whole way of doing business in an effort to put an anchor or two to windward in a sea of liability. Many a bank has refused to sell bonds ex cept over the counter in its own office, refused to give any information about them by mail. Blyth & Co.. in selling 147,500 shares of Kingsbury Breweries Co.; Manitowoc, Wis., issued a prospectus giving the com pany's earnings for May as $107,719 but added: "It should be recognized that the present margin of profit . . . is unusually large...
...winning entries of Dartmouth, Shadow and Carolina, did consistently well throughout the series; while the Crimson entry, Pastime, placed third in the first race of the first day, fifth in the second, and seventh in the third, which was the most difficult one, being 5 miles in length, windward and leeward, instead of the compromise 4 1-2 mile course of the first two races. These first three races were sailed in light, changing breezes, and on a flat sea, it was hoped that Cornell would be able to take place in the series, but she was unable to boat...
...Ethel Walker. announced that he had obtained the use of the country club on Fisher's Island off New London, that the school would carry on there until June. Meantime State police and constables guarded the school property. The fires (loss $300,000) had both been started in windward corners of basements. Not only that: within the past few weeks five other fires had been discovered, snuffed out in time. Clearly it was arson, with suspicion pointing at a discharged school employe...
...10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward end, and so shielded by vegetation, soil, etc., as to produce a pressure difference between its open ends? The effect of elaborate melodies thus produced without human intervention would be highly magical and suggestive...