Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty fleet came to a stop, turned its searchlights on the spot. A boat lowered from the Pennsylvania fished out four struggling men who were carried to the hospital ship Relief, where Jesse Hanley Hester, 33, of San Diego, died of his injuries...
...became dean of "Keys," was appointed Bishop of Truro in 1935. His diocese embraces the county of Cornwall, four parishes in Devonshire and the windswept Scilly Isles off Land's End. Year ago this Lord Bishop did something none of his predecessors had ever tried. He took a boat to a lighthouse in the Isles, let himself be hauled up, his clerical apron flapping and his gaitered legs dangling, from the boiling seas to the lighthouse door (see cut). There he confirmed four isolated islanders in the Church of England's faith...
...could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial Airways, the British Government and Short Bros., famed manufacturer of Britain's famed Empire flying boats, Major Mayo built a seaplane...
Launches will not be put on the river until all danger of freezing is over. On Wednesday, with Coach Bolles himself holding down the bow seat, a pickup boat of past and present Varsity oarsmen went out on the Charles for a short workout. Last year the Crimson fleet was launched on February 20, but was driven indoors for two weeks early in March...
...successful season last year, the Varsity crew was only defeated at the sprint distances once, when a Navy boat crossed the line with a lead of a third of a length, and beat Yale in a record breaking upstream race at New London...