Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near it, deserve special mention because they rank among the great athletic teams of all times. The 1901 Varsity took advantage of unusually favorable water conditions at Poughkeepsie to establish a world's record of 18 minutes 53½ seconds for 4 miles. Bert Coffin's 1903 boat load of giants while interfered with in the first two miles of the race on the same course were only a few seconds behind this record, 18-57-1/5. They rowed the last two miles eleven seconds faster than the first two miles. Quite unusual I think! Their nearest...
...fighting condemned him together with about 40 other Wobblies to go to Leavenworth to jail. The Wobblies appealed; when the Grand Jury upheld the verdict against them they were assembled and sent to Leavenworth where most of them are still doing time. But Big Bill Haywood had boarded a boat and sailed to Europe. He did not pay his passage; burly, black with dirt, pathetically tough, Bill Haywood stoked the furnace of the ship that fear had made him board. In Moscow, where he went when he landed, Big Bill Haywood was again a hero for a little while. They...
...illustrations are for the most part amusing and well done. Such pieces as "Three Men in a Boat", redacted after the manner of Ernest Hemingway, provoke more than a single smile. There is a goodly scattering of squibs worth repeating, and there are verses which have distinct merit. One finds, in short, plenty of evidence that the editors have a talent for making humor prevail, a sense of values, and the wish to carry on an enviable tradition. They would profit most, perhaps, by more widespread and varied co-operation--there are evidences that the burden of this issue...
...first Freshman 150-pound combinations was the only crew entered and as a result rowed in the Junior Eights race. It won this contest with crew M, the Fourth University 150-pound shell, placing second ahead of the other three Junior Eights. J. A. Crooks '25, of the Union Boat Club, won the Senior Singles race...
...Canary Islands some fishermen found a man lying exhausted in the bottom of a 20-foot row boat. He, Captain Franz...