Word: reef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduction of the unfortunate multiple suite, previously avoided in all the new Houses scarcely promises to result in more rooms priced between $200 and $250, the great need. On admitting more men to the luxurious Harkness units, charging some less and giving them less, Harvard has taken a reef in its financial sails. What is needed, more than redistribution, is a larger number of moderately priced rooms. These can come only as a result of reduction in the total rents, to which the financial ability of Lehman Hall should be principally devoted...
...getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough to eat, especially with occasional wallaby gobs, or crayfish given us by Mr. Hosking, the cannery boss, not to mention mutton birds and fish; there is also a remarkably jeestly oyster on the reef to the south, which Dr. Allen and I sampled briefly yesterday...
...even less after the fresh fruit was gone, and we began munching prunes. On the tenth day we took some cheese and sardines in to the well and had us a regular water drunk, after which we went over to the west shore and bathed in some of the reef pools and took the rest of the afternoon off in warm sandy comfort...
...little success, but made no money. Last year he had a chance to do the thing he had always dreamed of. He shipped on a freighter out of Marseilles for a cruise in the Indian Ocean. Four days out the ship was wrecked on a reef off Alexandria...
Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...