Word: floating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the Wursthaus will receive its errant balloon, which disappeared from the roof of the building Saturday night. Robert Menslage '50 will receive his reward for capturing the aerial float which he claims to have retrieved from the winds when it had broken loose after the Brown football game...
Bill Leavitt, cox on last year's combination crews, got a frosty heave-ho off the Newell float yesterday after his eight defeated four other Varsity shells over a one-mile course in the river basin. The winning time...
...every night before closing, emerged after hours to help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek...
...more advanced model would float serenely to earth on a large parachute. It would be equipped with a heater to keep the pilot from freezing to death in the cold upper air. The really de luxe models may be watertight and stocked with provisions to keep the pilot alive for a while if he falls into...
...Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...