Word: prow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black crepe dress, black low-heeled shoes, black silk stockings, and a pink hat, Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind), who described herself as "an old baseball player," batted a bottle of champagne on the prow of the light cruiser Atlanta, sent her down the ways in Kearny, N.J. Same day the Navy launched a sister ship, the San Juan at Quincy, Mass...
...Varsity race Syracuse shot into a temporary lead at the start when their stroke hiked the beat up very high as the four crews pulled away from the stakeboats. At the quarter, though, the prow of the Crimson Peacock shell was out in front, and it stayed there for the rest of the mile and three-quarters...
...first half mile of Saturday's main event, the varsities of Harvard, Tech, and Princeton skimmed into a slight head wind prow for prow. Up until the Harvard Bridge Wagner was understroking the opposition and keeping up with them, but soon after Wag's boat got swinging at the payoff number, and the race was all over. With half a mile to go the Varsity shot the beat up to 34 for practice and went over the line at 37 in 9:22.8. Princeton was timed exactly five seconds later, and Tech finished eleven seconds behind the Tigers...
Last week Ma Greene-now silver-haired, plump and 72-knew that she had pointed the Greene Line's prow in the right direction. Packets and towboats pushing long lines of barges were carrying more traffic (chiefly coal, oil, steel) over the Ohio than in the golden river days made famous by Mark Twain. There was less romance but more business (19,680,176 tons in the first nine months of 1940). The Greene Line got its share. No longer active as a pilot, Ma Greene now serves as symbol and occasional hostess for the line, lets...
...real feast is spread about once a generation, usually combined with war: shipbuilding. And 1940 was its festal year. For Admiral Stark's two-ocean Navy, shipyards launched a naval vessel every twelve days; few were the Washington glamor girls who had not smashed a bottle on a prow. The Maritime Commission at year's end had 932,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with...