Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helps Callow at the University of Pennsylvania. At graduation Al Ulbrickson was appointed freshman coach at Washington, was made head coach next year when Rusty Callow left for Penn. Ever since, Washington has always finished at least third in the varsity races at Poughkeepsie except in 1930 when their boat was rigged too low, sank before the finish...
...pimento sands and mint-jelly sea of Bermuda last week air tourists flew for the first time as Pan American and Imperial Airways simultanteously began passenger service from Port Washington, L.I. with one plane apiece each way per week.† This week Imperial was scheduled to send a flying boat on first test hops all the way across the Atlantic between the new airbases at Botwood, Newfoundland and Foynes, Ireland (TIME, Nov. 30; March...
Last week Air France and the French Line joined in creating a new concern called Companie Air France-Transatlantique. It announced that the lumbering old flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which capsized in Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece...
...sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa...
...state of mind of the helpless observer of a great calamity. The sides formed, the propaganda rained, every day heightened the emotional tension but in this country there was no valid way for an individual to relieve his sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during that period was to incur a potent blast of hostil criticism from every side...