Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another occurred last week. Private James Stanley and others stripped off their regimentals and jumped into Long Island Sound from the Fort coal dock. Half way over to Glen Island, Stanley's stomach was griped. He floundered. Ashore some sharp-eyes saw him, telephoned the Quartermaster for a launch, seized a towel, waved at a hovering seaplane...
...Stanley's comrades reached him in the water, but soon both were sinking. Toward them came then a droning roar, a splash, a gliding swish, and strong hands reaching down to hold their heads above water until a third rescuer, the Quartermaster's launch, sputtered up to take the two gulping, gasping privates aboard...
...Pretty slick work," hailed one of the launch crew. "Better let us have your name...
Both the University and Freshmen crews rowed six miles downstream today. The stroke was seldom raised above a paddle and Coach Haines had no comment to make when his launch docked following the workout...
...thousand spectators strolled down to the shady shores of Lake Carnegie last week at Princeton after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under steady stroking...