Word: skiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Workmen launched a skiff yesterday from the Weld Boathouse and managed to clear the ice away from the piers of the landing stage and also to open a passage into the free part of the river. With the possibility of a further warm period today, there may be by this afternoon an open stretch extending from the Anderson to at least the Western Avenue Bridge...
Died. Frederick Skiff Field, 44, son of the late famed poet, Eugene Field, of burns received in an auto accident; at Tomahawk, Wis. Nick- named "Daisy" by his father (who imagined that his son's eyes looked up at him like flowers), Frederick Field never forgot the curious merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam...
...held at Rome in April, 1922; entries close March 31, and should be accompanied by a fee of two lire for individual contests and five lire for collective contests. Competition is invited from American Colleges and Universities for the International football match (one team for each nation), rowing (skiff and four-oar), foot races (100 metres, 800 metres, 5000 metres), relay race of 1600 metres. One team of three competitors will be admitted to each event from each nation...