Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife the Princess Hermine, his son, Friedrich Wilhelm, and a party of ten, motoring between The Hague and Haarlem, Holland, discovered in a ditch, badly smashed, the car in which their servants had preceded them. The servants were unhurt. Later in the day on Kager Lake a speed launch carrying the younger members of the party, blew up, badly burned and bruised two, nearly capsized the yacht Olympia on which the senior Hohenzollerns were cruising...
...attack begins. The opposing generalissimos launch their offensive catapulting skillfully-wrought missives from a secluded operating base. For ten days the bombardment continues. Attacks are met with desperate counter-attacks, flashes of individual heroism rival the instances of insubordination, sallies vie with sorties...
...Jayvee eights went down the river as far as the three-mile mark, practicing starts all the way. F. F. Colloredo-Mannsfeld '32, regular stroke, who was declared out of the boat for the rest of the week on doctor's orders yesterday, was in the coach's launch, while T. L. Armstrong '32 filled his place in the University shell. Armstrong, who had a taste of the first boat last week before the contingent left Cambridge, filled the stroke seat capably...
...Conn., June 1--Harvard's oarsmen, including members of the University. Freshman, and Jayvee eights, arrived here today, attended by coaches, managers, attendants, and launch-drivers, and immediately went to the training quarters. Coach Whiteside plans to hold his first workout on the Thames tomorrow morning...
...lightweights were picked up by the Harvard launch, and carried to the Tech boathouse, where Coach Bill Maines of M. I. T. sent them back to Newell in a Tech launch. The Harvard shell was carried to the Tech float for examination, then towed by the Harvard, launch back to Newell Boat House. None of the men in the capsized boat were injured...