Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Annie, now 45, got her start as a girl of 18 when she shared a boat with her father for a year. From then on, she fished alone. She can handle her own gear: 32 lines for cod, 100 lobster pots (most of which she made herself), eight nets for herring, mackerel and other ground fish, two rowboats and a 23-foot motorboat. She first qualified for the Dominion government fishing bounty* 17 years ago, has just got her latest $8.75 check for the 5,000 pounds of fish she caught...
...qualify for a bounty, a fisherman or fisherwoman must fish three months a year, catch 2,500 Ibs. of deep-sea fish and use a boat with at least a twelve-foot keel. The money is interest on Canada's share of the $5,500,000 the U.S. paid after the 1871 Treaty of Washington for rights to fish in British waters...
With Council busy in Wisconsin, the Crimson Varsity is in as good a position as any boat around to ride home the winner for the second straight year...
...that gahdam cox," was the implausible alibi of C. Colby Hewitt, Jr. '49, spokesman for the crew. "Not only did he weigh 149 pounds, but he was dragging his foot too. I was pulling the whole gahdam boat as it was, but that was just too much," he snarled...
Stroked by Oliver Scholle, the Mastodon sweepswingers held an advantage for all but a fraction of the mile course, when an erratically driven Adams boat took the lead at the three-quarter mark, only to finish last about two feet behind Winthrop...