Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German cruiser Frankfort was also sunk under similar conditions. She had light armor, thin decks, lay at anchor undefended and unrepaired during a seven-and-a-half-hours' bombardment in fine weather, with airplanes flying not over 2,000 feet in altitude...
...good rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...
...meet will oppose Williams in a relay race. The University team originally expected to meet Dartmouth also in the relay, but owing to a misunderstanding, the Green runners will not compete. Williams defeated Bowdoin, the conquerors of Yale, at Portland Monday night when Foster, Bowdoin anchor, lost his footing after gaining a commanding lead. Coach Farrell welcomes the race as a good test for the team in preparation for the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell on February...
...last two laps enabled Chapin to hand a fifteen-yard lead to Cutcheon. Cutcheon ran a fast, steady six laps in which he widened the gap over Gibson. Haggerty, well known to local track fans, was cheered wildly as he rushed farther and farther ahead of Laughlin, the Yale anchor man. He broke the tape in 8 minutes 5 2-5 seconds, a new Harvard-Yale record. Half an hour earlier the world's champion Georgetown two-mile relay team had been held to 7 min- utes 56 1-5 seconds on the slow B. A. A. track, making Georgetown...
...quarter-mile relay was narrowly won for the University by C. G. T. Lundell '27. Bateman of Tech left his Crimson rival half a lap in the rear, when Lundell, Harvard anchor man, snatched the baton, regained the lost territory, and won by a scant yard...