Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practice for the University crews is being continued on the Charles under the favor of good weather conditions. Some trouble was experienced yesterday afternoon, however, when light ice floes partially choked the rowing space, necessitating the use of the launch to keep it clear. Coach Stevens expects that two more mild days will find the river entirely free for practice...
...from in front of Newell boathouse, and with the rain last night it is probable that squads will take the river this afternoon under the direction of Coach Brown. The river is clear below Weld boathouse at present, but there is no thought among the coaching staff to launch any shells until later in the spring...
...today's CRIMSON appears the first offering of The Crime. It is a cold world in which to launch an infant "colyum". The young thing must fend for itself from the first moment of its inky existence. Some critics will look for hidden wisdom between its lines; some will always demand a lofty humor which mellows inwardly but never cracks a smile; and some will even expect the silly young thing to talk sense. But these hypercritical fellows do not count...
...projected as he revealed it to a human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing up the Thames in a steam launch with cigars, champagne, plovers' eggs in aspic. Mortared with the egotism of Mr. Ford, who jauntily refers to himself as "the finest stylist in England," the blocks fall into place; and slowly there looms up the spirit of Joseph Conrad, who in all the world would have loved nothing better than...
Richard Brittingham, a Sophomore at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, and a candidate for the crew manager-ship, was taken out to Belle Dock in the middle of the harbor early Tuesday afternoon by the crew launch to check the shells as they rounded the outer mark, and to see that no mishap occurred. After supper that evening some thoughtful person remembered that he had not been brought back. A search was started immediately, and at about 9 o'clock the faithful but gloomy candidate was found still sitting at his post...