Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the end of August, this writer and two friends converged on a little town between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, pockets stuffed with black-market, Dutch guilders, and hired ourselves a boat. The man who took our money grinned pleasantly and told us we would have much...
...headed north. The first day out, we were running on a reach through the Zuider Zoe, when one of these postcard sloops came shipping up astern, pulled out to pass, and then cut under our bow. We all politely stared at its four man crew. They stared right back, and one of them scrambled into his cabin. He promptly reappeared holding an enormous red swallow-tail flat, which he bont onto a halliard and ran up to the top of his mast. After a few minutes he pulled it down again and sailed off. We were very concerned about...
Night, sailing was no better. The Dutch are great ones for fishing instead of earning on honest living, and every evening they get out of bed, yawn, and set out for a night with the nets. We found they were very economical fishermen to boot. When a Dutch fisher man reaches his favorite fish hole, he generally shinnies up the mast and blows out all his riding lights to save kerosene. This means that at any moment the erstwhile yachtsman is prone to destroy the means of a fisherman's livelihood with a sharp blow below the waterline...
Assets to the Freshmen are an inside man from last year's Andover team (Andover can hardly know anything about Harvard since Lamar scarcely does), two left-handed quarterbacks (which may or may not be significant), a pretty heavy line ("its still fairly fat, though"), and far rower injuries than might be expected from a week of battering from the varsity. The team also boasts a probable fullback starter named Blitz...
...Man Committee...