Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were left to flay their ways through the black water. Only two of the men-George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing 25 Ibs. in this $25,000 venture...
...land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard " was sheerest coincidence but not so the careers behind them. Asa Packer was successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner, railroad operator, financier and philanthropist. James Ward Packard, the young graduate of the school Asa Packer founded, was successively an employe of an electric company; organizer of his own electric company; inventor, developer and promoter of a motor car which bore his name. The laboratory which he has presented...
Showing a decided improvement in their attack and court tactics, the 1930 players moved up from eighth to fifth place in the Class C ranking. The Union Boat Club continued to hold its advantage over its opponents...
George Washington, as all the world knows, crossed the Delaware with folded arms in a small boat, rowed by his ragged orderlies among vast cakes of ice. Last week, as part of a sesquicentennial celebration, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, swimmer, mother, swam across at the same place, on the same day of the year, in 10½ minutes. Mrs. Schoemmell is said to be of Hessian descent...
This afternoon the University Squash Racquets team will clash with the Union Boat Club players on the University courts. The match is in the semifinal round of the State interclub series...