Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessel Jacona (7,000 tons) they were ripping marine engines, boilers, propeller shafts and replacing them with great General Electric turbogenerators and Westinghouse condensers. When their work of renovating the Jacona was done, they would turn over to Central Maine Power Co. not a new-fangled freighter but a floating power plant with which the company could supplement its electrical production in cases of emergency along the New Hampshire and Maine coast. Inspiration for this translation was, of course, the emergency use of the Navy's aircraft carrier Lexington as a power plant at Tacoma, Wash., last winter (TIME...
...Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case of flood whereas the marbles of Praxiteles would sink), the contest seemed amusing...
...Sturges at bow, as shifted there by Coach Whiteside last Wednesday. Colloredo-Mannsfeld, Sophomore stroke who it was feared would be unable to take his usual seat when practice was inaugurated at the Connecticut quarters because of a minor ailment, was in his place when the shell left the float...
...crew rowed down below the Tech Boat House in the Basin at a fast paddle, stopping at the Tech float before starting upstream again to let T. E. Armstrong '32 take the place of F. F. Colloredo-Mansfeld '32, who is suffering from a minor ailment which makes rowing on stretches uncomfortable. With Armstrong at stroke, the eight rowed upstream at little more than a fast paddle gradually increasing their speed until they had come into the stretch above the Western Avenue Bridge, where they raised their stroke steadily to about 40 to the minute...
...lightweights were picked up by the Harvard launch, and carried to the Tech boathouse, where Coach Bill Maines of M. I. T. sent them back to Newell in a Tech launch. The Harvard shell was carried to the Tech float for examination, then towed by the Harvard, launch back to Newell Boat House. None of the men in the capsized boat were injured...