Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From New London, a CRIMSON reporter gave the Varsity boat a slight edge over the Elis, but considered the Freshman doomed to defeat. As it turned out, the Yale Varsity came up with a three length victory over the Varsity which was then described as "inexperienced and untried," while the Crimson Freshman experienced little trouble in turning in an easy victory when the Eli yearlings craft sank from under them after a mile and a half...
...Life. Peggy's year-round citizens make their living from the sea, fishing for lobsters, herring, mackerel, salmon. Each fisherman owns his own home, his boat and fishing gear and most of them have a cow and an ox in the barn, a pig in the shed, a small garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait...
...face was fuller, its pockets were emptier. A dozen hits were still riding high, but wartime spending had slumped, and peacetime expenses had soared. To raise the curtain on a show cost just about twice what it had only a few seasons back. The revival of Show Boat, one of the greatest Broadway grossers of all time, wound up last January some...
...them. Sales, helped by the war boom, went up; so did Bracy's bonus. By 1944 Bracy was getting a bonus of $196,394 plus $25,000 salary. Stockholders began asking questions; so did other branch managers, cramped in straight salaries. Bracy was rocking the Kroger boat...
...readers get what they want, when it is what Hibbs (who considers himself an average reader) wants too. What they get is, among other things, fresher than before, but still not hot news. Until 1939, West Coast copies were shipped by boat through the Panama Canal. This week the issue of July 5 is being made up, but if something new has to be added, some pages can now be changed as late as 18 days from "Post...