Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William's frigate arrived in Boston Harbor from a two-year cruise. Frantically impatient to see his mother, William jumped into a small boat, pulled furiously for the land, leaped ashore, rode day and night, by carriage, coach and wagon, to Emmitsburg. He ran the last two miles, up & down hill, only to find, when he arrived at the convent, that his tuberculous mother had been six months dead...
Light practices during the remainder of the week failed to bring the Chace stroked outfit into top form, while the Eli boat stationed at Gayle's Ferry was pacing through its trials in it foest form of the season. By week's end both eights had found their stride...
Meanwhile Harvey Love's championship Freshman boat was improving every day and rated a sure winning berth over their Blue opponents. Undefeated so far, the Yardlings are the only oarsmen who have come within a half-length of the Varsity this season...
...oceans for Pan American Airways, relieved congestion at Boeing's, where there are under construction five more Clippers and the first Stratoliner, built like the Army's Flying Fortress, but equipped with a pressurized cabin.* Down the Duwamish tenders carefully nudged the great flying boat, nursed her sidewise through bridge spans narrower than her 152-foot wing spread, eventually moored her in Elliott Bay off Puget Sound...
With nothing else to do, they began to fight. The purser said the captain was trying to wreck the boat. A steward fought the cook because "we had canned pears too often." The captain said the chief engineer had stolen 20 barrels of white lead. The captain's wife refused to come to dinner. The captain chased a passenger from the pantry because she was helping the assistant cook dry the dishes. A passenger announced she would pay $500 to have the captain beaten up. The assistant cook discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team...