Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, we sailed mostly on canals, or at night. Neither of these were particularly conducive to postcard reproduction. On the canals you couldn't see the boat for the cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline...
...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...
Umbashed by this setback, Miss Dixon took the turtle to her West Newton home that night and joined him in the bathtub. "He swam and he swam and he swam," Miss Dixon said, recounting the thrill of the event...
...realistic mock trial was presented for first year law students last night as an experiment sponsored by the teaching fellows of the Law School. A Law School professor and a prominent Boston attorney argued the case of Starr vs. Keene before a Federal District Judge in the Langdell Court Room...
...Margaret Cole, distinguished British author, lecturer, and authority on the Fabian Society and the Labor party, will speak on "The Role of Fabianism in British Social History" at 8:30 p.m. Monday night, October 10, in the Cabot Hall Living Room by request of Miss Helen Maud Cam Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor of History...