Word: launching
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Stephen C. Kenney '44, by his Intension of writing a 30,000 word book in the near future, has become the first Yardling to launch himself on a literary career...
This feat had several importances. It was an insufferable taunt at the Italians. It drew not a single ship from Italy's main naval base at La Spezia, not 60 miles away. It was an unequivocal warning to the Germans not to try to launch a seaborne expedition to North Africa either from Genoa or from French ports...
...Nevertheless he became Wilson's son-in-law. The war took him to the zenith of his public career: he floated four huge Liberty Loans, took over the rail roads, issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the Secret Service, helped Senator Carter Glass launch the Federal Reserve System...
...George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George V to the Potomac, and the Presidential yacht disappeared into the mist on a voyage with no immediate destination...
Columbia, breaking even in two away-from-home games against Cornell and Yale during the week, managed to land in a comfortable third-place position from which to launch its post-examination drive in February. It was by the narrowest of margins, however, that the Lions won their overtime 40-38 decision over Yale on Saturday night. Brightest feature of the night for the Light Blue was the brilliant scoring of Bill Hasslinger, rangy Junior center. Held to two points by Cornell earlier in the week when he went out on fouls midway in the first period, Hasslinger came back...