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Word: overboard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...start and gained steadily; but Yale was put entirely out of the running by misfortune when, with Harvard four lengths to the good at the mile mark, Kent, at No. 6 in the Eli shell, broke his oar and added a spectacular touch to the event by jumping overboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1920 CREW VANQUISHED YALE BY TEN LENGTHS | 5/26/1919 | See Source »

Among the many interesting features will be submarine runs, torpedo runs, exhibition drills and "man overboard" drills. There will also be dancing on the battleships and other amusements of a usual fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Day Program Starts at 10 | 5/13/1916 | See Source »

...Navy Day" will be celebrated at the Charlestown Navy Yard on Saturday, when visitors will be admitted from 10 o'clock until 6.30. The special attractions will include submarine runs, torpedo runs, exhibition drills, baseball games, dancing on the battleships, "man overboard," battleship turrets in action, music and speeches. The price of admittance will be 25 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Navy Day" Celebrated Saturday | 5/11/1916 | See Source »

This morning according to the usual custom, Coach Arthur Beane '11 and the managers were thrown overboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS CONTINUED THEIR PRACTICE AT RED TOP | 6/10/1915 | See Source »

...Kappa nine 13 to 8, without the aid of the umpire or scorekeeper The scholars were at all times completely at the mercy of the editors, and even their star mathematicians could not solve Sam Hall's cavorting curves. The game was tied up in a sack and dropped overboard in the sixth, when a volley of bingles drove the Intellectualists from their last line of trenches. Frequent substitutions failed to lower the standard of the CRIMSON'S playing, and it will be difficult to select a nine for the remaining victories of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knights of the Key Badly Defeated | 5/8/1915 | See Source »

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