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Word: launching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only desperate bailing efforts, a great push, and the timely arrival of a rescue launch saved him from receiving an over-night parking ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Action Saves Rower From Wet Parking Summons | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

...sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface of the water, and my palm, here, is the blade of the oar . . ." The boyish enthusiasm over crew and Bert Haines among the men he has handled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Satira, Tirana & Mee | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Should science be on the defensive, remorseful for having made the Bomb? Among those who think not is quick-smiling, quick-thinking Dr. James Bryant Conant, Harvard's eminent chemist-president, and a top U.S. wartime scientist. Last week, Dr. Conant held a press conference in Manhattan to launch his just-published book, On Understanding Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unrepentant Scientist | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Wellesley thespians will launch the first professional college theater group this July with the opening of a co-ed summer theater and school. Plans call for a regular stock season bolstered by a resident company of Equity actors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley 'Swallows Seek Summer Roost | 4/24/1947 | See Source »

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