Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity and a boat rowing for the Union Boat club propelled by five ex-varsity Harvard crowmen, two ex-jayvees, and an assistant dean. The whole event is being filmed in color. The race is not the opening regatta is simply a three quarter mile informal jaunt across the Charles basin to a chowder lunch at the boat club before the Dartmouth game...
Keener came home with more than salutes; he also had $2,000,000 worth of contracts in his pocket. This week, starting a second jaunt, Sam Keener was looking forward to more salutes during his stopovers in the world's principal cities. Out of it, Keener hopes to snag additional millions in new business...
Princeton is an excellent rugby team which has as its main offensive weapon a squad of great muscular backs. They also showed in their Bermuda jaunt an alarming knowledge of the game, and considerable coordination. Pitted against the Crimson's larger than average team, these factors should make for a bruising contest...
...Southern clubs always have the jump on their northern visitors as far as training goes, so Stuffy isn't expecting great things during the spring trip. But the annual jaunt is valuable in that it gives the coach a chance to find out who his dependable pitchers are and who he can count on for base hits...
...Away. Even now, well-heeled nomads can outdo Phileas Fogg by taking a trip around the world in 6½ days for only $1,700. Returning from such a jaunt, wiry Eddie Eagan, New York State boxing commissioner and a Yale classmate ('21) of Trippe's, assured the Circumnavigators Club that it was a cinch: all you needed was a toothbrush, a good book and a few sleeping pills...