Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, Maestro Arturo Toscanini cheerfully put his wife aboard an airliner for Paris, announced that he would join her in Milan early next month. Would he fly, too? Said the maestro: "No, no, no! I will go on a boat...
Freshman dinghy sailors meet Yale tomorrow afternoon at the Milford, Connecticut, Yacht Club for their first race of the spring. The Crimson boat will be sailed by John Bishop and Ed White, who came in second in the Freshman Intercollegiate Regatta, and who defeated jayvee teams from six greater Boston colleges last fall...
...four-match Southern trip, and was able to work in a week of extra practice. This was a major factor in its recent victory ever Clark, but Dartmouth has also spent Eastern vacation in Dixie. The Green won a match and lost a match to Georgetown, which boat Harvard...
Mere size is not a factor; witness Frank Cunningham, the great 160-pounder who stroked the 1946 boat, or Ollie Filley, who stroked that 1947 Jayvees although he weighed only...
...doesn't make the difference either, although an oarsman usually doesn't hit his peak of physical efficiency until his early twenties. (Bolles thinks the large number of older crewmen account for the high level of competition in postwar rowing). But Ted Anderson's presence in this year's boat seems to provide ample evidence that this rule is not infallible...