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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutoring schools have been reaping a good income by spotting passages or French students. According to reports, the most active offender is William Sharpe of Parker-Cramer tutors, who has also been spotting sight passages for other tutoring schools for the fast few years...
According to a statement made last night by Joan Darbelnet, instructor in French, the French department "is putting more stress on sight packages in this year's final examinations...
Keeping its stroke down to below thirty for a good part of the race, the Cornell sight pulled ahead slowly with their most comparatively free of water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering...
Under CAA's certificate of convenience and necessity, awarded to Pan Am the day before the first trip, only two transatlantic flights may be made a week. With authorizations from France and England for six a week, CAA is keeping room for competition. Only competitor now in sight: American Export Airlines, which has not yet made its first exploration flight...
...Rose who had not had time to launch their dories. They found them all. Then, without food, water or compasses, they struck out, rowing steadily through the grey dawn toward the land somewhere about 100 miles westward. The sea was calm. For a while the dories kept in sight of one another, but soon they spread apart, going their own ways as they do when fishing. There was no disorder; every man knew they must make land or sight a ship before thirst broke their morale...