Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moored, cracked off. The ships lurched violently. Benjamin Roth, aviation mechanic, was thrown into the water. He drifted away from the ship among cakes of ice. Commander Byrd himself jumped overboard to rescue him. After ten minutes, during which Byrd failed to reach Roth, three other men in a boat fished first Roth, then Byrd, out of the water...
...avowed purpose of Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition to Antarctica is to increase man's knowledge of the South Pole and its surroundings. Thorough, the expedition has only begun a two-year plan of attack by boat, plane, sled, foot. Never before has an expedition been so carefully, so richly equipped. Never before has the leader been in such efficient communication with the rest of the world. Day by day, month by month, five men at wireless stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, have been and will be receiving messages from Little America, Bay of Whales, Antarctica...
...Squash Racquets tournament will be played today and tomorrow to bring the competition close to the final stages by the end of the week. W. J. Iselin '29 is slated to play the winner of the match between A. G. Thacher '29 and L. Wheeler, Jr. of the Union Boat Club. Iselin, who is seeded first in the tourney, is expected to go on to a fifth round match with B. C. Perkins of the Cambridge Squash and Racquets Club very soon...
Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...
...Cabin Boats. Characteristic examples of the standard cabin cruisers, built for cruises of weeks and months as well as for week-end excursions are boats made by Elco* and by A. C. F. (American Car & Foundry). Elco (boatbuilder for 36 years at Bayonne, N. J.) has a new sport model which combines cabin accommodations for four with a speed of 20 m. p. h. The Elco Fifty (a twin-screw 50-footer) and the A. C. F. Fifty-Four and Sixty-Eight are instances of the motor boat which has virtually graduated into the motor-yacht class...