Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after earlier famed Astor yachts, will be flagship of the New York Yacht Club fleet. This privilege the Club secured by electing Vincent Astor Commodore for 1928. Vincent Astor...
What Vincent Astor's new boat will cost is variously estimated, up to $2,000,000. She has nine staterooms, eight bathrooms. Her cruising radius is 12,000. Her speed 14½ miles per hour. She requires a crew of 38. Bare running expenses for such a boat are estimated at well over $100.000 a year. Entertainment expenses can easily run the year's budget...
...March 3. The most interesting games scheduled are the Harvard-Yale hockey match, which is to be played in the Arena, and a polo game with Yale, to be held in the Commonwealth Armory. In addition a wrestling bout with Williams and Freshman squash match with the Union Boat Club will take place...
...player who played on a class B team in the 1926-1927 season may play in the contest, is he has restricted his playing for the 1927-1928 season to class C teams. All entries should be forwarded to W. M. Shedden, in care of the Union Boat Club, Chestnut Street, Boston. If the names are not sent in by noon February 25, they will not be considered for the tourney...
Preliminary matches up to the match before the semi-finals may be played on any courts other than the ones available at the Union Boat Club. All men in the contest will be expected to arrange their own matches...