Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Premier Pattullo was challenged to resign and stand in a by-election on the unemployment issue, the sit-downers crossed Burrard Inlet by boat, hitchhiked or rode the rods to descend on the dignified, heavily policed little capital city of Victoria, on the southeast tip of Vancouver Island...
...London. Except for the Harvard-Yale football game, the greatest event of the year for Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...railroad bridge to Bartlett's Cove. It was the first time since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike") Chace, who had beaten Yale twice before, had paced only one losing race in two years and is generally recognized as one of the greatest strokes in the history of U. S. rowing. Yale had only...
Yale Grads-sprinkled on the banks, the observation train and the decks of the million-dollar flotilla of yachts-yelled themselves hoarse as Ed Leader's crew shot out in front getting away from the stake boats. But that was the only time it was in front. In as pretty a race as has been seen on the Thames in years, both shells moved along as one-the Yale bow stubbornly clinging to the Harvard stern - until beyond the three-mile mark. There Yale made a courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat...
Poughkeepsie Regatta (Mon. 3:45, 4:45, 5:45 p.m., CBS). No. 1 crew race described from the boat train by Ted Husing...