Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arriving at the boathouse, the first eight gave their decision on the boat to be used against Yale. They favored unanimously the red cedar shell presented to Harvard this year by Mr. Ridley Watts, fathers of Captain John Watts. This craft was constructed by George Pocock of Washington, the foremost racing shell designer in the country...
Among other taxpayers rejoicing were theatre-owners, whose admissions are now tax-free up to $3. Producer Florenz ("Show Boat") Ziegfeld and the Theatre Guild, in Manhattan, had to make refunds on advance sales...
Timely, therefore, was the arrival of Federal war boat Progresso and Brig.-Gen. Heliodoro Charis, who routed the Fourteeners, rescued the besieged...
Soon after 5 o'clock in the morning the three motors of the Trimotored Fokker monoplane Friendship, which Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold several weeks ago when he decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly...
...forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...