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...Harvard shell got out onto the Charles yesterday. The float, which was needed at Weld Boathouse in order to launch the shells on the open water there, remained fast in the ice in front of Newell. The cold of Thursday night had kept it frozen in solidly, and despite the warm rays of the sun yesterday, it could not be moved. The work will be continued and undoubtedly the crews will be on the water Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER CREW WORK BROUGHT TO CLOSE | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

Rally Day and Float Night-the big events of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Mar. 3, 1924 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

Smith (Miss Florence McArdle): 1,500 out of 2,000 do sports voluntarily. Rally Day and Float Night are the big events of the year. Stu- dents have no time to become professional sportswomen or to sell tickets to pay for intercollegiate expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Games for Girls? | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...U.S.S. Tacoma, 20-year-old light cruiser which ran on Blanquilla Reef off Vera Cruz while on duty in Mexican waters (TIME, Jan. 28), was struck by a heavy norther while still aground. Captain Herbert G. Sparrow and 19 men remained aboard trying to float the ship. During the storm, which lasted two days and drove the tugs, standing by, to harbor, the Captain and three radio men lost their lives. The ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Requiescant | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...occupation put an end to it. The manufactured goods of a mark-infested Germany were poured en masse into the world markets; the greater the fall of the mark, the greater the volume of business. Meanwhile, France, with Belgium literally "following in father's footsteps," was compelled to float huge loans to pay for the damage caused by the German invasion, while her own industries were ruined and while the Germans were dumping their cheaply manufactured goods here, there and everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RUHR: An Economic Retrospect | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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