Word: prow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
Sprucely habited in white yachting flannels, II Duce took the tiller. Throughout the week he sailed, fished, occasionally donned his bathing suit, leaned from the prow, a wide-eyed, hirsute figurehead...
Coach Haines' big Freshman sweepsters more than lived up to expectations, leaving both the Plebes and the Ithacan 1929 eight far behind. No changes are contemplated in the Freshman boat, which so far this season has kept its prow ahead of all contestants. The 1929 eight will leave for Connecticut next Sunday with prospects for an unstained record very bright, especially as the Yale Freshman crew was beaten three weeks ago by the Pennsylvania 1929 boat, which later trailed Captain Norton's crew...
...University race it was a battle between Penn and Tech all the way with Harvard never quite near enough to make a dangerous bid for first place After the first eighth mile. Penn began to forge ahead with Tech's prow holding on about half a length in the rear. Harvard, a length behind, had dropped its stroke to 34 two points lower than Penn's. A little before the crews came to the bridge Tech started a sprint which carried it ahead of the Quaker crew...
About half way through the race with their prow just keeping abreast of the University boat's stern, they started to forge ahead. While the Crimson rowers stuck grimly to their task the Tiger shell gradually crept up. Just before the bridge was reached the two prows were even, with Princeton still gaining. Harvard's best efforts were beginning to seem ineffectual against the powerful precision of the Tiger stroke...