Word: whaleboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the Arctic night went Sergeant Morgan and a native crew in a whaleboat, equipped with an outboard motor. Through bad, murky weather, all mist and fog, they put-putted southward across little ponds and up small streams. Few hours later they made out a splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch...
...fact that there is no cruise for Sophomores and Freshmen at the end of the summer, is caused by lack of appropriation for the next fiscal year which commences on July 1. There will be instruction and drills during the day in preparation for the battle practice and the whaleboat race with Yale which will take place during the latter part of the cruise...