Word: galley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over seventy years, since the days when it ranged from a mudflat to tidal torrent twice daily, the Charles has been the playground of youthful Harvard galley slaves. Before the turn of the century, boat clubs made rowing attractive; over five hundred undergraduates used to pull oars, and many more thronged to the crew races...
...Blot sat in the Great Hall, silently mulling over the galley proofs of the April Lampoon. In the corner propped up behind him was a large cardboard thermometer, colored up to 12.1 percent. Around it were slogans: "Let's hit fifteen in '53!" "Upward with Updike!" "Mother Advocate gains readers...
Blot yelled something unprintable, and leaving the galley proofs on the table, ran upstairs to stop the movies and marshall the editors for the search...
They found that many workers were imprisoned behind barbed wire, slept at night on concrete slabs and were treated like galley slaves. Mounted "boss boys" rode among them during the day, beating them with bullwhips. Laborers died in filthy "hospitals" where a doctor was seldom seen. Often workers did not see the contracts they supposedly had "signed," had no idea what was in them...
Older Roots. As the galley proofs of the new Burke's appeared, however, a few fortunate families found themselves tied to a past they never suspected. Sir Edward John Chichester learned from conscientious Editor Pine that one of his ancestors was knighted in the 13th rather than the 14th century. Earl Howe, three of whose lordly antecedents fought Washington in the American Revolution and whose family never dared peep behind Henry VIII for forbears, learned that his line went right back to Richard I, second of the Plantagenets. "There is a very great probability," said Editor Pine last week...