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Word: embarking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With three days of strenuous practice behind them the first two boats of the University navy will embark for Ithaca today, leaving by the 4.30 o'clock train from the South Station. On Saturday they will engage in a quadruple regatta, meeting Cornell, Syracuse, and Technology, the latter for the second race of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOATS LEAVE FOR CAYUGA REGATTA | 5/21/1931 | See Source »

Setting out from Cambridge at 7.45 o'clock sharp this morning, two carloads of trained and determined Phi Beta Kappa baseball talent will embark on a long matutinal motor trek with New Haven, Connecticut, as the objective. At least ten Crimson key-carriers, including two members of the Junior eight, will constitute the nine that is to invade the home of truth and light bent on showing that scholarships and athletic prowess can go very much hand in hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learned Key-Carriers Set Out Today for Annual Yale Game--Hope to Whittle Down Last Year's Score of 50 to 2 | 5/15/1931 | See Source »

Douglas Fairbanks motored to San Francisco with a large number of guns and cameras great & small. There he planned to embark for the Protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China. His purpose: big-game hunting. He said he would call upon the Emperor of Japan, the King of Siam, the native rulers of Rajputana and Baroda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...clock tomorrow morning 14 members of the University basketball squad, together with Coach Ed Wachter and two managers, will embark at South Station, Boston, for their Christmas trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM LEAVES TOMORROW FOR VACATION TRIP | 12/18/1930 | See Source »

...Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about him? "There will be nothing for the lad to do except embark on deed after deed of violence, rising to a climax of unimaginable crime. . . . In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today. They may mean something not very different from what Bugs Moran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter's Child | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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