Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...political affairs of the Islands. He described some encroachments of the Germans upon the rights of American citizens. Not only are we bound to protect our commerce, but we ought to secure a naval station in the South Sea. We must soon have an increased navy and trading fleet, and will need a port in the southern waters...
Messrs. G. C. and C. F. Adams, Harvard '86 and 88, owners of the fleet 40-foot sloop Babboon, are at present on a trip around the world. They will be gone from Boston about a year and the Babboon will, therefore, not go into commission next season until late, unless she is in the meantime purchased by some yachtsman, as her owners decided before their departure to dispose of her if possible...
...season of 1888: June 16, pennant; June 30, first championship; July 7, club race; July 21, second championship; July 28, ladies' race; Aug. 11, open race; Aug. 18, cup race; Sept. 3, championship; Sept. 8, sail off. With its new house and the additions to the racing fleet, the club ought to have a most successful season...
...long ago, he chanced to stumble into a fair-sized pond three feet deep in the very midst of the path. Be this as it may, the college authorities have at last awakened to the fact that it would be cheaper to lay board walks than to hire a fleet of gondolas for the rest of the winter. This grand stroke of economic policy has long been awaited by the students, and now enmasse they thank the powers who have fulfilled their desires. Hereafter, we trust there will be no need of wearing rubber boots on warm, sunshiny winter days...
...they fleet...