Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light breeze over the starboard bow and a still surface favored the Freshman race, but as the wind hauled around to eastward the water in the basin chopped up and make tough going for the Varsity. All Harvard crows finished at 36 and kept up an easy 30 for the greater part of the race
Suddenly a green light appeared off the port bow. And the Vagabond, who at times is a timid soul, thought of the liquor that he had proudly extracted from Halifax without paying the Canadian tax. He turned off the running lights and headed the ship slowly up into the wind. But almost immediately the green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...
University 150-lb. Crew--Stroke, V. R. Bailey '40; 7, H. M. Turner '40; 6, S. M. Pierce '40; 5, R. Fay '40; 4, G. von L. Meyer, Jr., '38; 3, G. C. Cutler, Jr., '40; 2, J. S. Stillman '40; bow, J. G. Gilkey, Jr. '39; cox, N. M. Plaut...
Freshman Crew--Stroke, C. P. Wagner; 7, F. L. Hinkley, Jr.; 6, S. Gray; 5, F. B. Riggs, Jr.; 4, E. M. Moffat, Jr.; 3, A. H. Whitman; 2, R. L. Fowler, Jr.; bow, W. B. Pirnie; cox, J. Mitchell