Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take part in the harbor life every Tuesday and Friday morning from the first of June through September, when the launch of the Seaman's Friend Society makes the rounds of the harbor ships and heaves packages of magazines and books aboard each. The launch leaves from a float under the Chariestown end of the Charlestown bridge--the big one that the elevated goes over--and two large signs identify it. There is room for twenty visitors. There is no charge, you simply go down to the float at ten o'clock and get taken aboard...
...upstream-course will be carefully laid out beforehand, with the finish line on the level of the downstream float of the boat house. It has been traveled fastest by J. S. Frame '30, a student in the summer school, who in the last year's regatta put up a time of 58.8 seconds. The best women's time, and there were 45 women in last years total entry of 115, is some 15 seconds behind this record...
...atmosphere which one detects in "Zoo in Budapest," is not wholly a matter of mise-en-scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...
...Small cat & dog bankers would continue to float cat & dog securities-since they would have little capital and less reputation to lose...
...Stocks. Morgan & Co. does not float common stocks, seldom preferred stocks, but when it arranges the financing of companies there are often common stocks to be sold. In such cases it may buy a block of common shares, which it gets at wholesale price, may make a handsome profit, for as in the case of Standard Brands (see p. 58) when the wholesale price is $32 a share, and the opening market price is over $40 a share, there is a paper profit of $8 a share to begin with. Of the block of shares purchased part may be resold...