Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First the fishermen searched the water for men from the Rose who had not had time to launch their dories. They found them all. Then, without food, water or compasses, they struck out, rowing steadily through the grey dawn toward the land somewhere about 100 miles westward. The sea was calm. For a while the dories kept in sight of one another, but soon they spread apart, going their own ways as they do when fishing. There was no disorder; every man knew they must make land or sight a ship before thirst broke their morale...
...mass of good material the likes of which has not been seen for several years at Harvard. As a result of the tough competition and real interest that the Junior Varsity oarsmen have shown this year's Junior Varsity is one of the best spirited crews ever to launch the second shell...
...Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters...
...conclusion, let us look at the plan as a whole. The goal of the House athletic scheme is a double one, quantity and quality. Improving one without the other defeats the very purpose of sport. The plan we launch attempts bettering both at once, quality from the top, with the invigoration which will come from the erstwhile Junior Varsity and minor sports man, and quantity all the way through, in the tremendous expansion of the House program which the plan affords...
...Meanwhile, Herr Hitler planned to remain in the big new Chancellery at Berlin until April i, when he is to go to Wilhelmshaven to launch a new 35,000-ton battleship. He is then to go to his mountain retreats in Bavaria, but is to return to Berlin in time for his soth birthday, April...