Word: leaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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January 31: The Yale Whale springs a leak the week before the game, but it is patched in time for a 3-1 Eli upset...
...rely upon gas-light by which to do their evening reading, to have the light grow so dim that they can scarcely distinguish the letters before them. Such a state of affairs must, however, be borne with the best grace possible for the next two or three days. A leak has been discovered in one of the principal gas mains in Cambridgeport and while this is being repaired, the college dormitories are dependant upon the gas supply brought over from East Cambridge. The work of repairing has been rendered doubly difficult by the heavy rain of day before yesterday...
...skill of the sophomores in rowing was tried rather unexpectedly last week. When about one mile and a half from shore the boat sprung a leak and they pulled for the shore in good earnest.-[Yale News...
There is a bad leak in the roof of Harvard Hall...
...brig Addie Benson has arrived at Provincetown, having on board the captain and fourteen of the crew of the ship Screamer, who had been rescued in mid-ocean from their life-boats, after the sinking of their ship from a leak...