Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then, junior co-captain and All-American Hess Yntema has decided to quit swimming and last season's diving star Dave English has been sidelined by cervical surgery. A once runaway Crimson aqua-machine has been tamed somewhat and a close four-way race between Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth has developed for the Ivy laurels...
Woods Hole Marine Biologist John Ryther has devised an even more ingenious aqua-farming scheme using partially treated sewage water from the Cape Cod town of Wareham. In his ponds, Ryther raises a thick harvest of plankton, which is then fed to baby oysters. To remove whatever ammonia, phosphates or nitrates the oysters and plankton may have left behind, he runs the sewage water over beds of seaweed, which also thrives on these chemicals...
Howie Blatt of the Columbia Daily Spectator needs to be mentioned and so does Dennis Corbett of the Crimson. Corbett's coverage of Harvard's championship swim team is still causing waves in the aqua-world...
...supposed to be the greatest aqua-victory in history for the Crimson swimmers, but when the waves at poolside had quieted down Saturday night in Princeton, the site of the Eastern championships, it was the Tigers that were out celebrating...
...disqualification in the 400 medley relay threw the proverbial monkey wrench into the Harvard aqua-machine on Thursday, but the Crimson swimmers overcame the setback yesterday to surge to a 264-248 lead over second place Princeton at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League Championships being held at Princeton...