Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshmen, for example, had booked passage to Europe months ago on a boat which will leave at 10 a.m. today. Other absentees include a geologist, who took an exam last week in Mexico City, and a freshman in the NROTC Program who took his History I final in California because the Navy ordered him to take the Pacific summer training cruise, which started from San Francisco yesterday...
...trying to establish contact with the boys taking the exam early this morning in New York will be disappointed. The Columbia grad student who will proctor the exam is under strict orders not to let his charges out of his sight until he has accompanied them to their boat...
...invitations. London's fourth society season since the war was just rounding into the straightaway and there was,a heady catalogue of entertainments in the offing: a huge ball for the twin daughters of Lady Alexandra and Major E. D. ("Fruity") Metcalfe, a rout at the Guards' Boat Club, the Cygnettes Ball and a round of parties encompassing Royal Ascot Week. It was a list to make a shopgirl's head spin. But for a princess it meant mostly that her holiday, such as it was, was over. With sister Elizabeth safely settled in matronhood, Margaret...
...glum-looking music student from Evanston, Ill. boarded a boat for Paris. She had a round-trip ticket, but was in no hurry to use the return half. Last week Gertrude O'Brady was back in Manhattan, calling up old friends with the invitation: "Come and see me, I've become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint...
...Harvard camp explained that an observation boat anchored near the finish line at Bartlett's Cove is for invited guests only. It was chartered by a group of Harvard students...