Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans involving the construction of a boat house for the Harvard Yacht Club, either on the banks of the Charles nearby or in the Basin, are in preliminary stages now, according to David M. van Buren '46, commodore of the club...
Although the boat house will be an official part of University equipment, it will not be the equivalent of other buildings with athletic facilities, as the Athletic Department to date has refused to give credits for sailing. Van Buren says that the club will be open to all interested, and hopes it will include a fleet of about 20 12-foot racing dinghies...
...Buren estimated that the cost of the boat house itself may exceed $10,000, while the boats may involve another $7,000, but he hoped that definite plans could be concluded by the end of the spring term, and that actual construction would start as early as next fall...
Referring to the merger brawl between Army & Navy brass hats, Harry Truman had said that they would all be in the same boat when he sent up a message. Last week, the President launched his boat, and sure enough they were all in it-but it flew the Army's flag. Ex-Artilleryman Harry Truman's plan...
Taylor, his four student pilots and nine enlisted men (most of them marines) vanished. Horror was added when the first search-rescue plane, a flying boat with a crew of 13, also vanished; a passing ship reported that it had blown up in midair...