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Word: boatful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davis was the first man ever to sail eastward across the South Pacific during the winter. He made the voyage in a 48-foot ketch with a crew of two, his wife, and two sons. On November 2nd, after five months of sailing, his boat arrived in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Davis Disputes 'Kon-Tiki' Theory at Dunster Forum | 12/10/1952 | See Source »

Dunster nosed out Winthrop, 38 to 32, in inter-House basketball last night. In other A league games, Kirkland defeated Adams, 47 to 40, and Lowell boat Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters, Kirkland and Lowell Win in Basketball Last Night | 12/9/1952 | See Source »

Varsity team members and freshman crew candidates will meet with the new coach at 7 p.m. this Thursday in Newell Boat House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reynolds Coaches Crimson Rowers; Succeeds Haines | 12/9/1952 | See Source »

...They brought him back to camp four summers in a row-carefully salted and sugared his food at mess table, described to him what went on at campfire, patiently taught him (by touch) to row a boat and chop a log." Eventually, Alan Wylie passed all his tests. "The last time I saw [him] was the night a representative of the National Council presented him with the Scout Life Guard emblem. The boy's . . . face was transfigured, and the rest of us felt somehow transfigured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something for the Boys | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...written but tedious account of a fox hunt from the fox's eyes lead the reader to the last two stories, both of which are rather mis-begotten efforts. One is about a dour Maine lobsterman who waits patiently for his father's death to be willed his fishing boat only to have the will leave the boat's engine to his uncle. This is hardly an intrinsically amusing situation...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Lampoon | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

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