Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the NSA is currently doing its most important work in the area of racial integration, which does not affect Harvard directly, this organization is still the sole official voice of American students, and as such wields a power and responsibility which exceeds the sometimes half-hearted support it receives from many Eastern colleges...
...final race, the light-weights had to win four other races, almost all of them difficult, against some of the best American and English crews who didn't have to maintain a 150-pound average...
Officially, the margin of triumph was three-quarters of a length and the time was 6 minutes, 57 seconds. Though the race was close, the lightweights had conquered Thames and four other heavyweight crews to win the Thames Challenge Cup. Harvard was the only American victor in the entire regatta...
...week later, at Hamburg, the lightweights did not do so well against stiff Continental competition. An unfamiliar boat and a strange course hampered the crew. But the important victory had been gained. For the fifteenth time in the last seventeen years, an American crew toted home the yard-high Thames Challenge Cup, established just 90 years...
Sever 11--where connoisseurs of double-entre end will be straining their ears by mid-term to catch sly references to the congressional campaigns in Schlesinger's popular lectures on American Intellectual History since...