Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they may sit at tables and sniff; a good smell will convict. -The court reached its decision on the intorpretation of one word of the law. Section 21 of the Volstead Act states: "Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure or place where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, kept or bartered in violation of this title, and all intoxicating liquor and property kept and used in maintaining the same is hereby declared to be a common nuisance." The court ruled that it did not matter whether the customer...
...with, Hall setting the pace, half a length behind. Slowly, however, the eventual winners pulled ahead. From the Henley mark to the finish the distance widened, until at the end Crew A was a length and a quarter ahead of Crew C, with Crew B trailing Norton's boat by a similar margin...
...Monday weather conditions permitting, the three University crews will race again over the Basin course, with the strokes shifted. Watts, who rowed with a Freshman boat yesterday, may be back in a University shell next week. Following Monday's race, Coach Brown intends to make a slight shift and raise a few men from the second squad. The expected cut to two crews will probably not take place until the end of the week, at the earliest...
There was come conjecture about the boat house yesterday, due to the fact that the name of John Watts '28 was not to be found on the A squad list Watts, who stroked the second University eight to a hard fought victory over Yale last year at New London, has been chosen by the critics as a strong bidder for the stroke position in the first boat this season. Yesterday he went out in the launch with Coach Brown and it was rumored that he will row with the Freshman crews for the remainder of the week...
Before the crews had reached Harvard Bridge, however, the rhythm and power in Hall's boat had given his eight a decisive margin. A gained gradually on crew C but at the finish was still trailing by a quarter length. Crews A, C, and D rowed a stroke between 30 and 33 while Norton's crew finished in second place in spite of the fact that he kept the beat between 26 and 30. The winning eight was seated as follows...