Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rowers of the University of Washington pulled in competition with eight rowers of the University of California. The shells slid like yellow-legged waterbugs over the shining surface of a Pacific estuary, at first close together, at the end separated by a gap as long as 15 boats. Small craft edged up, bellowed brassily, airplanes curvetted amid ice-cream clouds. Washington had won, had set a new course record...
...sister ship, S. S. Lexington, is expected to slide from the ways soon. Both Japan and Great Britain are building craft similar, but said to be inferior in speed and power. The nominal ancestors of the Saratoga : Saratoga I, a sloop of 18 guns, was built in 1780 by John Hemphreys ol Philadelphia, who later built the frigates Constitution, Constellation, etc. On Oct. 9. 1780, she captured four British vessels. Saratoga II, which mounted 26 guns and displaced 734 tons,† was flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain. From her Commodore MacDonough sent this despatch to Secretary...
...University crew yesterday reverted to the regular shell after the trial spin of the day before in its new and bilious colored craft. A temporary change in the seating was made when J. M. Gates '27 replaced C. O. D. Iselin '26 at No. 2 for yesterday's practice...
Following the moonlit battle, the combined fleets- the U. S. Fleet- steamed northward from Magdelena Bay and came to anchor at San Diego and Coronado Roads- 114 craft, including the airplane carrier Langley and the supply ships. Fourteen gorgeous admirals took part in the quarterdeck receptions...
...process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down, was her initial attempt at fiction and, if you will turn to it, you'll find that it's a good story still. She is an honest workman. She respects her craft. She is successful, and an artist as well. Recently I heard Sherwood Anderson, himself an artist, claim that it was impossible for anyone with respect for the craft of writing to work with great success for magazines in the U. S. This, I think, is untrue. It appears to me that...