Word: afterdecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prettiest run of the afternoon was executed by a Crimson waterboy who, while sprinting toward the sidelines after a time-out, crossed the last wide stripe on his managerial afterdeck, on a brilliant five-yard squish...
...missed a Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain...
Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his Manhattan hotel, two hours ahead of other Bremen passengers. Since 1925 when the first was built, the Goodyear blimps (Pilgrim, Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Vigilant, Defender) have advertised the company by flying about the country...