Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squash team opened their winter seasons Saturday with two shutout victories over the Newton Club and the University Club respectively in the first Class C rounds of the Boston Athletic Association tournaments. The Harvard Medical School team, also in the C division, was overcome by the Union Boat Club quintet 5 to 0, while the Harvard Club of Boston, the fourth team to win all its matches, outplayed the Walkover Club...
Following a map drawn by the late Admiral George Dewey, the S. S. Maryland fetched up and hove to off Cape San Lucas, lower California. Two launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect...
Willis Chatham Hawley of Salem, Ore., has succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
...York, second son of His Majesty, was at the Royal bedside. The Duke of Gloucester and Edward of Wales-imminent King and Emperor-were on their "good will tour" (TIME. Sept. 17) of British Africa. Probably because of the vast distance between them and London (7,000 miles by boat and train), they were not recalled even when His Majesty's temperature began to rise...
...world which is showing a really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according to the state of the river. Only by air could Mr. & Mrs. Hoover drop briefly in on President Mendez-and no U. S. President or President-Elect since Theodore Roosevelt has made bold to enter an airplane...