Word: boatloads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons of his own race in the U. S. He would install power in the Pedro Gorino, transport U. S. Negroes back to Africa by the boatload. But his race brethren gave him no support...
Coach Sullivan's fast boatload of oarsmen will be greatly handicapped by the loss of their stroke man Donough Prince '31, who will be prevented from entering the race on account of an unavoidable engagement. The flying featherweights will be stroked by either Captain F. E. Farnsworth '29 who has been rowing at No. 6 all season, or by T. N. Perkins Jr. '31, No. 2 man. Perkins was in the stroke berth at the first of the season before Prince displaced him, and he is at present the most likely candidate for pacesetter on Saturday...
...Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
...Vicksburg, Miss., steamer-captain Harris Clifford landed a boatload of refugees; nursed a deep flesh wound where an insane Negress refugee had bitten him in the hand...
Brazil. Brazil's revolt continued. The Federal Troops scored several victories and were said to be gradually cornering their enemies. On the River Paraná a whole boatload or rebels was sunk by gunfire; many lives were lost. According to one report, the campaign against the rebels was being conducted with prudence, owing to the Government's desire to spare the lives of Federal soldiers "who are more valuable to the country than the rebels and the mercenaries in their service...