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Word: boatful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rowers can make arrangements to use wherries and shells at the Weld Boat House, and several nearby spots rent sailboats, motorboats, and canoes. Information about these and other sporting activities may be obtained from the Department of Athletics, 60 Boylston St., or at Grays Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rich Menu for Sports Enthusiasts | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway was mad enough to fight a duel over an affair of honor. A shabby tale, widely spread by prattling European magazines, was depicting Papa as the very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...Cruel Sea. In Detroit, Mrs. Netti Rea testified in divorce court that her husband had spent all his money on boats, never named one after her: "He named them for other women. If I'd been a boat, I'd have been well kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...major change, Love chose stroke Carlo Zezza to replace regular first boat stroke Fritz Schwarz, who was moved to the J.V. boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crews Rated Underdogs Against Yale | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

...varsity race, Love said that the Eli crew is probably the best Yale boat he has ever seen. He added, however, that one of his main hopes for victory is that the oarsmen in the middle of the Eli crew who are heavier than Harvard's, will get tired during the course of the race, and that their slide work will be poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crews Rated Underdogs Against Yale | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

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