Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first sign of open water one of the class launches was equipped with sheet iron strips and driven about in such a way as to hasten the opening of the channel. The ice is still eight or ten inches thick but so weakened that the armored launch encountered no particular difficulty in its work. Although there are still isolated blocks, the channel is clear...
...first year men will be the first on the water when they launch the Leviathan today for its initial cruise of the season, unless a change in weather condition forces revision of plans, it was announced by Coach Haines last night. Coach Brown's men will not appear on the river until a few days later, partly because of the fact that shells are very apt to collide disastrously with floating ice cakes and partly due to the fact that Coach Brown believes much valuable time may yet be spent in the tank...
With a meeting in the President's office at 7 o'clock next Tuesday evening, the Crimson will launch two competitions open to members of the class...
...tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member, had plunged to the rescue. A one-time (class of 1917) Princeton footballer, saturnine Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr., publisher of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, was nearby in his speed launch. While the tender turned itself around, Mr. Ames fished out Mr. Havemeyer and the Russell boy. Mr. Havemeyer did not miss the Munargo...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company will launch its Boston season of two weeks at the Opera House on January...