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  • s  rigged with square sails as the principal ones

  • Most of the crews are 17-year-old boys who want to serve in square-rigged sail, required by many governments to qualify for officers' papers in the merchant service.
  • By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of .
  • GERMANY Seven Years War?The square-rigged, ruddy-cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar.

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