Word: boated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...command its great new boat, the Navy has picked one of its best: Commander James Butler Osborn, 41, a Missouri-born, Annapolis-trained ('41) package of controlled power, who has been on hand 18 hours a day since March rushing work on George Washington. A World War II submariner (six combat patrols), Osborn spent his postwar years earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in three years at Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College...
...Magazine (a word customarily capitalized by the society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken Bow, Neb., 73 to North Borneo, and one to Hunza, a Central Asian state so remote that the Magazine each month must be carried 12,000 miles by boat, train, plane, Jeep and native runner to accommodate its lone subscriber, His Highness the Mir. With remarkable loyalty, 87% of National Geographic subscribers voluntarily renew...
This year's running of the oldest intercollegiate contest in the country, now 108 years old, puts special pressure on the Crimson boat since a Yale victory would tie the series which now stands 47-46 in the Crimson's favor. The last tie occurred in 1940 when the Crimson evened the series at 39 victories each...
...varsity race will start at 7:15, the three-mile J.V. race at 6:30, and the two-mile freshman race at 5:45 on Saturday. The combination boat race is run on Friday. Once again the N.Y., N.H. & H. observation train will followed the races, leaving New London...
...that the company can accept or reject bids to buy. But the broad majority of European capitalists heartily hold out hands in welcome to the U.S. investor. "The more investment the better," says a top Zurich financier. "We in the West are politically and economically in the same boat. The closer we are connected, the stronger we shall...