Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which calls itself in the best athletic manner the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. The League wants to put stamps bearing the inscription. "Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua" on the backs of envelopes. The Postmaster has decided, however, that the Marines can not be classed in the same boat with the "White Death", especially out of the Christmas season. He has forbidden the stamps passage in the mall under the section of the U. S. Penal Code relating to the sending through the mails of libelous, scurrilous, defamatory and threatening matter...
Beribboned, bedraped, the interior of Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week went drydock. A 62 foot Elco cruiser, biggest boat of the show, rumbled up to the doors and towered at anchor. A 30,000 pound Diesel engine arrived and sat solemnly in one corner. Propellers, pennants, anchors, gyroscopes, all manner of gadgets ranged themselves agreeably on the shelves. The 23rd annual Motor Boat Show was declared open...
Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...
Arrangements for the Harvard-Yale boat races, to be held on Friday, June 22, were completed yesterday in New Haven by officials from Harvard, Yale and the N. Y., N. H., and H. Railroad Company. The race will be rowed at '6 o'clock. Eastern Standard Time, and the course is to be down-stream this year. Although a definite time has been set, the actual beginning of the race will depend, as usual, on the weather and water conditions...
...follows: S. M. Dupertius '28 defeated Vernon Cook '26 of the Harvard Club, 3-1; A. J. Haughton of the Harvard Club defeated G. T. Francis '30, 3-1; J. L. Pool '28 defeated A. C. Ingraham '31, 3-0; O. Phipps '31 defeated H. Badger of the Union Boat Club, 3-1; and Seabury Oliver '28 defeated A. R. Holt of the Newton Centre Club...