Word: boatloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
With more than six months until the season's opening race, Bolles in hardly committing himself on the subject of a prospective first boatload. He will not even guarantee that his five returnees can hold down their jobs next year...
Even without the draft to help them out, Navy is the logical candidate to win the Adams Cup tomorrow in the triangular contest over the Henley distance, The Middies have seven veterans from last year's formidable boatload, and as if that weren't enough, they have already turned in comfortable victories over both Princeton and Yale...
After last year's great season, many local followers feared that the graduation of stroke Frank Cunningham might leave a brawny boatload without the brains needed for perfect timing and steady generalship. There is still no stroke, but Bolles shows no signs of worry, for Don Felt, from last year's Jayvee eight, Jud Gale, who spent last season at number five for the Varsity, and Bill Curwen, who bids fair to follow in the path of his brother James "Bus" Curwen '42, termed by Bolles "the greatest stroke I ever coached," are all in hot competition for the post...
...spend eight or 18 millions to present our side of the case. In France, the Communists got all the best newspapers after liberation, and the biggest allotment of newsprint. We ship in wheat and not a word of it gets in the paper. Russia sends in a boatload of wheat, makes the French transport it and pay for it in American dollars, and you'd think it was the millennium from the way the Communist newspapers play...