Word: fleetly
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...Simon scored 76 points for the team in their seventh-place showing, while sophomore skipper Jon Garrity and senior crew Ashley Nathanson finished in fifth-place for Harvard.The host-Terriers, Yale, South Florida, Boston College and Bowdoin took the top five spots.THOMPSON TROPHYThe Crimson once again sent its top fleet to the US Coast Guard Academy on Saturday and Sunday, this time for the Thompson Trophy. Harvard raced 32 times over the two days, finishing fifth overall with 255 points, just four more than Connecticut College in fourth and seven more than Yale in third.For the Crimson...
...Harvard’s top fleet traveled to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. for the Admiral’s Cup on Saturday and Sunday, where the Crimson came away with a fourth-place finish in the 20-team field. Yale, St. Mary’s and Hobart/William Smith took the top three spots, while Harvard’s 312 total points were just enough to hold off Georgetown’s 325 points in fifth place...
...modern civilization began," says Tsai Bi-ju, Tainan's international-affairs section chief, referring to the city's 200-year reign as the island's capital before Taipei replaced it in 1885. Tainan's founding father, a Ming dynasty general called Koxinga, arrived from China in 1661 with a fleet of artists and scholars, intent on transforming the Dutch-ruled port into a beacon of Chinese culture. It worked, and today's Tainanese are quick to claim their city as the island's guardian of tradition...
...Osisu's founder, Singh Intrachooto, 39, never intended to be a furniture designer, but his environmentalist scruples made him one. About a year and half ago, the M.I.T.-trained architect was dismayed to see a fleet of trucks turn up at one of his project sites every evening to haul away tons of rubbish. "I thought to myself, 'Wow, I'm building an energy-efficient building but I'm still producing a lot of waste,'" says Singh. He discovered that the garbage-including perfectly good plywood-was being incinerated, dumped in landfills or left by the roadside. Spurred into action...
...Betty's notion of acting while singing was to break each lyric into its components, mine each phrase for the mood or situation, then act that out to the hilt, however short the phrase. Given the Johnny Mercer-Victor Schertzinger ballad "Not Mine" in her debut feature The Fleet's In, she dreamily croons the first line ("It's somebody else's moon above"), then immediately pulls a little girl's mope face for the words "Not mine." She took the same approach to acting, with multiple personalities flashing across her face with lightning speed and violence...