Word: leviathan
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...nation at war, Holmes has eloquent things to say. He was no stranger to war. Walking down Boston's staid Beacon Street one afternoon in 1861, with his eyes glued to the pages of Hobbes's Leviathan which he had just borrowed from the Athenaeum, he felt a touch on his shoulder. "Holmes," a friend said, "you've got your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came...
...Bolles' undraftable reserve outfit but the Radcliffe crew that curious College students have seen paddling up and down the upper reaches of the Charles in their slightly leaky Leviathan, the good barge Cutty Sark...
Most of the scenes were taken at Newell Boat House, showing some of the preparations which Tom Bolles takes in producing his winning crews. From the first day in which the candidates appear, the training routine is followed through sessions in the tank, training in the Leviathan, and finally rowing in the shells...
With singles open only to upperclassmen during the summer term, water-minded Freshmen--150 strong --have turned to Newell, where, under the tutelage of Harvey Love, the majority of them patiently plied the Charles in the Leviathan until they were good enough to be transferred to one of the eight oared shell barges...
Most of the Freshmen being beginners, they were automatically relegated to the training barge. Those who had had some prep school experience were put into boats right away, but many of them were sooner or later transferred back to the Leviathan where Harvey could help them iron out some kink in their form, and to date, almost all the Freshmen out for crew have had their turn in the barge...