Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lars Anderson Bridge. From today until the end of the week the squad will be free to do as it likes. Whiteside feeling that the danger of overtraining is greatest at this point in the season. On Sunday the University, Jayvee, and Freshman crews, substitutes, coaches, managers, attendants, and launch-drivers will leave for the three-week sojourn on the Thames before the New London regatta on June...
Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...
Just before the attack was to start a tiny fishing launch shot out from Funchal pier with a large white flag flapping from its flagstaff. As it neared the Carvalho Araujo the cabin opened. Out stepped Rt. Rev. Antonio Emmanuele Pereira Ribeiro, Bishop of Funchal, swaying unsteadily. A rope ladder was dropped. Hand over hand, up went His Reverence, his purple silk skirts flapping about his legs, to plead for the cessation of all hostilities, but Commandante Correia locked himself in his cabin...
...wears his skirt because he is a member of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, March 23). Every year his first and second crews start their season with a race against the first and second Harvard 150-lb. shells. Last week Father Sill got in the launch with Sullivan, the Harvard coach, and trailed the crews along the Housatonic. Kent's first crew got away to a slight lead at the start. At three-quarters of a mile it still had a lead but Harvard had begun to sprint dangerously. At the finish Kent had beaten...
...personal maturity to make possible an evaluation of the knowledge gained abroad. Greater preparation at home should be insisted upon and the student should have a very definite understanding of what he is seeking and the best way of getting at it. For there are far too many who launch themselves aimlessly and waste most of their time floundering in culture when they get there...