Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point in the spring the season prospects of the lightweights are very much in doubt. Handicapped by a late start on the river, they have not yet attained their potential, and the first boat, according to coach Laury Coolidge, is by no means...
Though slighted on practice time the lightweights' prospects are not as bad as they would seem. The first boat, set at least for today's race, has recorded some good times considering the late conditions. Stroked by Tom Alberg, the eight clocked the mile and a sixteenth upstream course in seven minutes, four seconds on Wednesday...
This gloomy Victorian coastal mansion is run by a bland sharper who calls himself Dr. Chesterfield. An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs. Boating and riding are advertised in the school brochure. But the boat is a suicidally leaky scow, and riding is discontinued when the resident donkey drops dead and is carved to vary the diet of congealed herring and paste porridge...
Hanson Robbins sailed his 12-foot Tech Dingy to high scoring honors, while Bill Saltonstall skippered the other Crimson boat. Trailing B.U. (87 points) were Harvard (81), Brown (81), M.I.T. (78), Bowdoin (63), Yale (51), and Tufts...
General Alarm. On Santa Rosa, passengers and crew felt the shock, heard the sound of the general alarm, rushed to dress. Gathering their life jackets, they streamed toward emergency boat stations. Some, like the shirtless man who stopped to put on a necktie, were momentarily panicky, but they were soon calmed by assurances from Captain Frank S. Siwik, 50, that there was no great danger. Siwik, master of Santa Rosa since her maiden trip last year, directed emergency work from the bridge, ordered fire fighters into the paint locker, radioed the Coast Guard for aid (a Coast Guard helicopter dropped...