Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the ice lined the Cambridge bank of the river and was piled in floes in the basin around the Weeks Memorial Bridge, a quarter of a mile of open water above the Newell Boat House gave the boats room for a good workout. Attempts have been made during the past week to keep the river open for the daily-passage of boats, but the severe weather has closed up each night the lane opened during...
...mighty Leviathan has been dodging the ice cakes between Weeks and Anderson bridges all this week. Today, however, Coach Brown hopes to take 12 shells out for the initial practice of the year. It is expected that six 150-pound crews will go out, and six class crews. In about three weeks it is expected that three crews will be chosen from the class material. After vacation a first and second University crew will be chosen...
Despite the preoccupations of its plot, this drama is as innocuous and sweet as vanilla ice-cream. June Walker plays the part of Sir Basil's U. S. representative with soft and flexible insouciance. Bred in Chicago, she made her stage debut in the chorus of Hitchy Koo, and has since taken its verbal last syllable for a motto. Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap. She has done this in Six Cylinder Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Love Nest...
...mere day or so ago the might "Leviathan" was ferrying the more ambitious Freshmen up and down the river between cakes of ice: The Yard squirrels, seized with a touch of spring madness, had begun to disdain the sacrifices offered them. The Geology Department was wondering whether it was not time for field trips to begin. The budding poets had been taken with the desire to scribble about the young man's fancy in spring...
...Haines, head coach of the Freshman crews, supervised the work of the 1931 oarsmen, together with F. R. Sullivan '27, former coxswain of the University crew. There was a stiff breeze, and an occasional cake of ice floated down upon the Leviathan, but the oarsmen encountered no major difficulties. The Freshmen have been working on the tank in Newell Boat House since February 6, when the call for candidates was sounded...