Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countered, last week, one Charles M. Manly, pilot of the plane in Langley's experiments: "Launch the Langley machine from its original catapult and let it write its own label. . . . Test it in its original condition of 1903 and invite the world to hear it speak...
During the morning spin, Coach Stevens again took a seat in a shell in order better to illustrate the particular faults he was having difficulty pointing out from the launch. At seat seven in the second boat, the Head Coach spent practically all of the time devoted to the early row. The University shell remained close to the Second boat, where Coach Stevens directed his coaching activities for the benefit of oarsmen in both eights...
...John Richardson '08. Chairman of the Rowing Committee, and H. S. Morgan '23, Captain of the 1923 Second crew as his guests in the Patricia. Today, F. V. Chappell, New London banker, and Chairman of the Regatta had his first 1925 view of the Crimson oarsmen from the coaching launch...
...shells have all arrived in good condition and with daily practice and examinations, the schedule is becoming fixed. The launch Pep. fresh from her little adventure with the government rum agents, has been overhauled and her leaks patched. The entire force of waiters and managers have been busy most of the day, unloading the shells and getting the equipment ready for practice. Tomorrow, the float will be ready for the morning row, and regulation work-outs of the usual length will probably be held both in the morning and in the afternoon...
When the May war was undertaken, it was made quite clear that if a rum launch would not stop when warned, every attempt would be made to blow it out of the water. Thus rum running became something more than risking a doubtful fine or a short imprisonment-it came to mean the risk of life...