Word: leviathan
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...draw out Leviathan with a fish hook? Can you put a rope in its nose or Plerce his Jaw with a hook? Will he play with you as a bird? Or will you put him on leash for your maidens...
Twenty-six years ago, 16 tall and rather green oarsmen took their first strokes for Harvard in the "Leviathan" training barge--newly launched that fall of 1928. Since these first awkward strokes, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 neophyte rowers have tried to master the fundamentals of catch and release aboard the flat-bottomed craft...
...above picture two Leviathan crews are submerging the float at Newell Boathouse in order to launch the new barge...
Historically, this Leviathan is the third such trainer in the annals of Crimson crew. The first appeared in 1922, but was poorly constructed and survived only six years. The carpenters for Leviathan III hope it will last at least half a century...
Although the builders of the first Leviathan got their name for a craft from Canard's newly-launched luxury liner of the same name, its origin is actually in the Book of Job, Chapter 41. In its Biblical cantext, Leviathan means whale or large fish...