Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orchids for Dinner. Einstein was happy in Germany under the Weimar Republic. He supported 100 poor families in Berlin, sailed his boat and played the violin. But when Hitler came, Einstein the Jew was badgered by the Brownshirts and finally driven into exile. He was offered a lifetime post in the cloistered School for Advanced Studies, and in 1933 he took up residence in Princeton. Quickly and unwillingly, he became a living legend...
...varsity crew won the Compton Cup Saturday, but narrowly lost the boat race to the midwestern brawn of the University of Wisconsin...
First of all, there is the Chris Craft pleasure boat, which contains at least one blonde and one hairy chest. While you row they come zooming by, within sinking distance, pull out the throttle, and yell: "Hey, kid, row that boat." In order to stay afloat, of course, you must stop rowing...
...rowboats," they invariably shout, and then wave energetically. Since you have only as many hands as oars, it is almost impossible to wave back. Nevertheless, friendly passengers or not, it is a scientific fact that at least once this spring you will be tipped over by the excursion boat...
...expenditures not matched coherently, but few of the members of the involved committees are aware of any sort of legislative budgetary policy. Slashes are made in budgets with little regard to the importance of items in any positive economic program, since Congressmen only attempt to avoid rocking the economic boat with overly-heavy taxes. Representative G. P. Lipscomb has suggested a remedy with his proposed Joint-Committee on the Budget, which would join representatives of both Senate and House appropriations and finance committees in a body devoted to the consideration of fiscal policy...