Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight crews persist in turning in extremely good clockings in time trials. Wednesday the varsity shell rowed the course in 6:46.5 under fairly rough conditions, beating the second boat by a length of open water...
...claiming yet that the varsity as good this year as last year's undefeated Henley champions but the boat has been quite impressive in both races so far. Dartmouth appears to be one of the top crews this year on the basis of its victory over a good Yale boat, and if the Crimson comes through with a victory this weekend, chances for a repetition of last year's record must be rated high. The main part of the season is now here and the true strength of the Crimson will be revealed...
Princeton was thrashed last weekend by a strong Pennsylvania eight and the week before finished a length behind Navy in a mile and three quarter race. With only three men back from last year's boat this seems to be a rebuilding year for a young Tiger shell which so far has not demonstrated much ferocity...
...Life Lost. Eventually, the ice began to break up in 30-ft. swells. Shackleton ordered his crazed, frostbitten men into the boats, and after a week somehow managed to make a landfall-the first in 497 days-on tiny, tide-swept Elephant Island. Then with five men, he set off on one of the most remarkable small-boat voyages ever recorded. In 14 days he sailed a 22-ft. boat 800 miles through incessant gales and 90-ft. high waves to the west coast of South Georgia. Impossible? But there was the next leg of the journey: scrambling 29 miles...
Meanwhile the ducks were nosing the foreign straw object with curiosity, while a collie dog ran up and down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...