Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wood '33 was the outstanding performer of the meet, finishing first in the, 50 and 100-yard free style events and swimming anchor man on the relay teams which equalled the Harvard record of 1 min., 39 3-5 secs. The Yale relay team, in defeating Rutgers at New Haven, was clocked at 1 min., 35 3-5 secs...
...mile relay against the Elis was not a closely contested event. J. H. Pearson '32 gained a lead in the quarter and N. P. Dodge '32 and Record added to it until Vernon Munroe '31, running anchor, was handed a 45-yard advantage which he held. The time for the race was three minutes, 29 3-5 seconds...
Twenty-four hours late, the liner Oropesa dropped anchor in Hamilton harbor. Wearing grey flannel suits, which Edward of Wales topped with a startling broadbrimmed "wideawake" hat, the two Princes stepped ashore, posed for photographs, shook hands with Acting Governor Edward W. Evans and his staff, then boarded a tender and putt-putted to the swanky Mid-Ocean Club at Tuckerstown. The Earl of Chester celebrated the beginning of his trade tour by playing golf with Bermuda's leading tradesman, Eldon Trimingham of Trimingham Bros. (clothing store), famed yachtsman and Bermudian socialite. It was a close match...
...hour later the Oropesa pulled out of the harbor with the princes on board and a parting gift of twelve boxes of ripe red Bermuda strawberries. Four days later the slow Oropesa was in Havana harbor, dropped anchor for five hours. Possibly because of Cuban political unrest, officially because the British Court is still in mourning for the Princess Royal, H. R. H. Victoria, sister of King George, Their Royal Highnesses set no foot on Cuban ground. Only potent gentlemen to meet them were British Minister Thomas J. Morris, Cuban Secretary of State Francisco Maria Fernandez and President Machado...
While the court continued to sit last week, while the mothership Lucia remained disgracefully at anchor, the Atlantic Fleet, including four motherless submarines, steamed off for the West Indies...