Word: leviathan
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...well known how the sailors, after a long struggle, regretfully abandoned Jonah to the rugged mercies of his God; and how Leviathan, by prearrangement, rose from the sea-bottom and bore the gurgitated prophet in his belly to Nineveh. There Jonah prophesied : "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." The city repented like a child of its sins; even the King went and sat down in some ashes. When the forty days were spent, it was found that God had spared Nineveh...
Continued mild weather, and an almost complete disappearance of ice enabled the coaches to continue rowing on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In addition to Coach Haines' Freshman squad which went out in the Leviathan, Coach Stevens had three University eights on the water in barges...
While movie cameras clicked, Coach Brown led, a crew into the Leviathan yesterday afternoon for the first workout of the season on the Charles. This is the earliest date that a University crew has ever been on the water. Coach Haines also put his entire Freshman squad through a short drill on the huge scow which was added to the Crimson equipment last year with the advent of Coach Stevens...
...spoke George Winthrop, seaman-writer aboard the Leviathan to a CRIMSON reporter. Winthrop, since leaving the University of Minnesota in search of "color" has had a varied taste of ship and port life...
...precedents for early rowing on the Charles may be shattered this afternoon if present plans for taking some oarsmen out in the Leviathan materialize. Last Friday, Coach Stevens and Spuhn led a squad of oarsmen in clearing the ice from in front of Newell boathouse, and with the rain last night it is probable that squads will take the river this afternoon under the direction of Coach Brown. The river is clear below Weld boathouse at present, but there is no thought among the coaching staff to launch any shells until later in the spring...