Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Harvard men have already joined the Field Service, and another boatload will leave for action as soon as transportation is available. The most recent group to set sail met with adventure almost immediately when their ship was torpedoed. Rescued and returned to Boston, they are now awaiting further transportation...
Without the co-feature, Dead Men Tell, the show would have a hard time climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...
...people visited him on the pretext of wanting to practice their German. They came armed with a bottle of Scotch, and, after they thought he had been "softened up," they peppered him with Nazi propaganda. On another occasion a stranger invited Shallenberger to come with him to greet a boatload of Germans who were entering the country illegally--an invitation which he refused...
...beaten eight, Captain Fluff Stevens, Walt Kernan, Johnny Richards, and coxswain George Shortlege are missing. Returning lettermen include this year's captain, Shuff Gray, now engaged in hockey activities, Bruce Pirnie, Sam Goddard, Dick Fowler, and stroke Jack Wilson. In addition to these veterans there is a complete Jayvee boatload returning from last year. Also the 1943 shell, which left ten lengths of open water between it and the Elis returns almost intact...
...Wilson's boatload nipped the surging Anderson shell by another fractional margin, and Bristol Hall's heavy, crossing fifth, edged out the first fifty to finish, stroked by Johnny Abbot, who had waged a nip and tuck battle down the course with Bobby Lincoln until a crab put his fifty out of the competition...