Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets, tightened their-safety belts, and waited...
Adams gleaned Frank Holt from the Jayvees, kept held of Fred Craft, and dean Phypers of last year, and picked up Chip Gannon as coach. For this reason the Gold Coasters will be using the Varsity fiuld play system with a team that will be short and fast. Other possible starters are Bob Whitelaw, Roger Davis, and Ted Wolf...
...sides). In addition to Laurence Olivier's fine soliloquizing, music lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
...within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously overloaded, crewmen turned fire hoses on the masses still scrambling to climb aboard...
Four Radcliffe craft and four Harvard dinghies will take to the Charles from the MIT boathouse at 2:15 p.m. Thursday to settle the championship of the Charles once...