Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the CRIMSON who will oppose the Lampoon on May 7 will be Captain F. V. Field '27, H. C. Bartlett '28 David Worcester '28, with Eduardo Andrade '28 as anchor. A. L. May '29 will act as substitute. Lead-off man for the Lampoon racers will be H. N. Higginbotham '28. Others running for the Jester are to be L. C. Jones '28, and Harrison Proctor '29 with James De Normandie '29 as anchor. The substitute will be L. M. McTurnan...
...British Government sent the cruiser Colombo to anchor off Corinto, but gave notice that it would not transgress the Monroe Doctrine by landing troops...
...they went in and out to the waterfront, past the already world-famed Absinthe House, to the levees where thousands of one-way flat boats, manned by grizzly "Kaintucks" lay at anchor. New Orleans was the richest city in the Americas and rivaled New York as a port. Bushy-whiskered rivermen were resentfully discussing that "outrageous sale of Louisiana to the United States." The boys disappeared in the bales piled high on the wharf. The suspicious guardsman peered about for a while, looked out over the muddy Mississippi and the waving grasses back in the impenetrable swamps, spat, returned...
...their staterooms in search of fur coats; the cooks burned hatch covers and dunnage in their stoves. The President Harding was completely out of oil. No land was in sight. Captain Theodore van Beek assured everyone that Halifax (Nova Scotia) was only 19 miles away, that he had dropped anchor, that tugs were bringing oil. . . . The President Harding finally reached New York Harbor last week, six days behind schedule...
Faced with a considerable lead to overcome, the Boston University relay team entered the last quarter of its race against the Crimson, with the chances of victory very slim indeed. Running anchor against Captain Haggerty, Mastaglio of the Terriers, however, performed the seemingly impossible; overcame his handicap, and leaping to the fore broke the tape a foot in front of the Harvard leader. The time was 3 minutes, 9 and four-fifths seconds...