Word: floating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...float no new loans until the situation had improved...
Three University crews, each in a barge, and 20 Freshmen dormitory and 150-pound men, in the punt, yesterday tried their oars on the waters of the Charles; but the long awaited event brought little pleasure with it, for the water which splashed on the float immediately froze, chunks of ice continually impeded the rowers, whose hands suffered from the icy spray and low temperature...
...thaw of the past two days resulted in the clearing away of the ice pack in front of Newell boathouse, and a float was pulled over to Weld, where open water gave opportunity to launch barges and the punt. The punt was transferred to Newell, where the Freshmen set out rowing about 4 o'clock. By 5 o'clock, an acre of ice lodged between Newell and the Lars Anderson bridge, and consequently University oarsmen had to ply between Lars Anderson and Western Avenue bridges, the latter also being blocked...
Landplanes are speedier and more efficient than seaplanes, because they have no bulky floats to add weight and increase air resistance. Landplanes are used, accordingly, on the London-Paris air route, though they have to fly over an angry strip of the English Channel. Even a landplane, however, will float for some time...
...British Air Ministry has determined on an interesting experiment. One of its less valuable planes will be put into flying condition, loaded with a weight equivalent to that of fuel, pilot and eight passengers and set adrift in the sea off Felixstone. The probabilities are that the plane will float for hours, thus reassuring the public that nothing but a few hours' discomfort would follow a plunge into...