Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard suddenly surged ahead by a length, and it was no time at all before a badly faltering Princeton dropped a half length back of M.I.T. Cheering spectators at the M.I.T. boathouse failed to aid the Engineers as they attempted to become the first shell to beat a Harvard boat this spring. The final margin was a length and a half...
Actually, this year's varsity, which finished 3rd in IRA last June, made a better showing against powerful Penn than its length and a half loss indicates. It was a tight race until the Tiger boat caught a bad crab...
...second freshman boat will be racing the Amherst JV as well as M.I.T. Amherst is an unknown...
...that is not far enough out, there is still the excitement of hunting whales in a wooden boat off the Azores (for $35 a day), or sitting on a deck chair aboard a "boatel" on Brazil's Araguaia River munching roasted piranhas ($1,600 for three weeks), or a six-week explorer's trip through Mongolia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the diet includes sheep's eyeballs and cooked lamb's head ($3,650). As for the $5,000, five-week trip to Antarctica, the boat does not leave from the tip of Chile until January...
...commission practices-notably, the elimination of "give-ups," by which brokers doing business on behalf of mutual funds split their commissions. In fact, one reason for the difficulty in selecting a new president was the resistance of conservative members of the exchange to any candidate who might rock the boat too much...