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Word: boatful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity finished five seconds behind Yale in the time of 20:10, while the Crimson JV boat covered the shorter two-mile course in 10:01, or two lengths off the pace. The Yardlings were clocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Number four oarsman Geoffrey Locke won the Bruce Finley Vanderveer Trophy which goes annually to the man making the greatest contribution to the freshman boat. Junior Jack Lapsley was elected varsity captain for the 1956 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Wouks' first son, Abraham, was drowned in a Mexican swimming pool in 1951, when he slipped out of the house early one morning to sail a toy boat his father had given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Built-in Engine. One night a week Wouk gives a course in advanced rhetoric at New York's Yeshiva University to a class of rabbinical students. He owns no car and no boat ("Possessions are disastrous"), but he does own two homes. In addition to the Fire Island summer place, he has a fashionable cooperative apartment in Manhattan's East 60s. He and his wife are homebodies; they love to read and listen to records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...rainbow-colored Dieseland, divers will splash into four feet of water in the world's biggest dump truck (50 tons), and the public will tramp around a host of diesel-propelled attractions ranging from an 85-ton atomic cannon to a 63-ft. shrimp boat. The star of the show: G.M.'s new, 10-car, 400-passenger Aerotrain, which is twice as light and less than half as expensive as conventional passenger cars. To make the diesel debut complete, the company has built a grandstand where 7,000 spectators can watch an hour-long musical (title: "More Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Diesel Dazzle | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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