Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after Leys and Plumer graduated, they decided to have a look at the world, and it was then that the idea of racing completely around it originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
Among the candidates were four members of last year's first University crew, three from the second crew, and seven from the combination crews, as well as the huskey oarsmen who made up the undefeated 1929 Freshman boat...
Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, is a hard place to leave. Winter visitors "miss the boat" (back to the U. S.) surprisingly often. Nassau is warm. Nassau is wet. The sun, striking through Nassau's clear ocean shallows to coral bottom, paints them a variety of shore-sea greens and blues to which not even a penny postcard can do justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry...
...first meeting for all Freshman candidates will be held. At this meeting, Coach Brown and Captain Platt will again be present, as will also Haines who this year will again act as coach of the Freshman eights, a position he resigned last spring to assume charge of the University boat at New London...
...told a Crimson reporter. "I saw nothing of him until about dinner time. He came in and wanted to rent a car to go to Boston. After looking him over carefully I asked him if he had not taken a car out that morning. Red in the face he boat a hasty retreat in the direction of Memorial Hall, blaspheming exams in general...