Word: floating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night at Wellesley is Float Night, late in May, when the four class crews race across the lake, while the girls on the banks sing. After that, the varsity crew is chosen -the greatest athletic honor at Wellesley...
...float, entitled "The Gods of Our Ancestors," moved into view and its commander threw Mayor Walker a ten-pound box of candy, which almost bowled him over. He grinned happily and said: "Don't throw any watermelons...
...coast, yachts are perched on stanchions like huge huddled birds, shivering, waiting for spring. Yachtsmen puff their pipes solemnly at home, telling stories, wagering on races before summer winds. Yachtsmen pore over specifications, they telephone brokers, they enviously peruse stories in the newspapers of other yachtsmen building palaces that float. Last week arrived in New York the Savarona, longest motor yacht in the world, built at Wilmington, Del., for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. Experts, friends, reporters scrambled along her decks absorbing her astounding luxuries, delved in her engine rooms peering at gauges, twiddling gadgets...
Guatemala City. Through the streets of a 400-year-old town a gay white float is passing by, "The Spirit of St. Louis," made all in flowers in honor of the guest. The real Spirit is lodged in an open hangar guarded by barefoot Indian soldiers. In the city Col. Lindbergh is making his grave, honest speeches. He is the city's first adopted son; receiving a medal engraved with the national bird, the quetzal...
Freshmen will satisfy the physical education requirement by skating on the Charles, if they report to the monitors, who will be on the Newell Boat House Float, it was announced by D. J. Kelly, assistant director of physical education, yesterday...