Word: launched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University was left half a length behind at the start of the race when no one in the Crimson shell heard the referee order the crews to row. The Crimson had the lane of the course farthest from the referee's launch, and was jockeying into position when the crews were sent away. Princeton and Yale had put in about five strokes before the Crimson blades caught the water, but Merrill kept his crew spurting till he caught Princeton, which had taken a half-length lead on Yale at the start...
...Pond '25 and P. H. Theopold '25 were responsible for saving the life of B. L. Rideout '27, when the M. I. T. launch ran down and sank the shell in which the Senior class crew was rowing yesterday afternoon...
...accident occurred at 5.30 o'clock about 70 feet downstream from the River street bridge. The Senior crews rowing upstream, met the Tech coaching launch coming down. The fault was mutual: Senior A had failed to stop, and the launch was on the left of the arch. In trying to regain the right side, the launch hit the shell in the bow, sinking it immediately. B. F. Rice Bassett at bow jumped just in time to avoid injury...
...Haven, Conn., May 1 Undergraduates here will launch a new magazine the coming week, to be called the Linonia. It will not be as representative of the sedate type of publication as the Yale Literary Magazine, the first college magazine published in America, nor will it be devoted solely to humor like the Yale Record...
...voice ring out. He said that, on the east, Poland has an enemy (Russia); on the west, Poland has an enemy (Germany); and on the north, Poland has an enemy (East Prussia, isolated German province). He pointed out that, from the last two places, Germany could launch an attack upon the Polish corridor (narrow strip of intervening territory leading to the sea), nip it off like a stalk of asparagus in the jaws of a crocodile...