Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...
...problem then was still present. Shortly after Henry Johnston, chief greeter for the Athletic Association had shouted "We're off!" and had narrowly missed immersion leaving the dock, another conference was held on the launch. Mr. Alison Danzig, visiting steward from the New York Times Boating Club, spoke first...
...Society's first accomplishment was a ship-to-shore broadcast of the Eastern Sprints regatta last May by walkie-talkie from the official launch. The reports of the races were relayed to the crowd at the finish line over a public address system...
...history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views history as a meaningful interplay of God's purpose and man's free will. Armed with his new sense of freedom, man was able to launch upon a prolonged era of creativity. But the "unanticipated disaster" of modern times, says Niebuhr, was that man, forgetting that his power for evil was as great as his power for good, began to identify his own creative activity with the will...
...decided to launch their own fund-raising campaign. The student council called a meeting of the student body, and undergraduate speakers presented the facts. Said Student Council President Louis Salebra, Rutlander and veteran: if the college failed to finish out the year, students who planned to transfer elsewhere for their junior and senior years (and most of them did) might lose an entire year's credits...