Word: astern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Observers at the finish clocked Radcliffe at an astounding 43 cadence over the last 400 meters of the race. Radcliffe finished a half-length in front of Vesper. Princeton finished a very close third, a foot astern Vesper...
Radcliffe covered the 1000-meter course in a remarkable clocking of four minutes flat, finishing 5.1 seconds ahead of runner-up Connecticut College. Williams, which set the pace for the first 500 meters and led for most of the first half, finished third, one second astern Conn College...
...sinking of the Burk marred an otherwise perfect Harvard day. After a fighting Crimson third varsity held off Navy for an .8 second victory in the afternoon's first race. Ted Washburn's freshman boat breezed to an easy three-length win over the Midshipmen, leaving Penn seven lengths astern...
...three eights have raced Princeton this spring. Navy dumped the Tigers by 2 1/2 lengths on the Seven River in early April. Penn edged them by half a length a week later in the Childs Cup race, and Harvard left Princeton four and a half lengths astern last Saturday on the Charles. On that basis, Nash, Ullrich and Princeton coach Pete Sparhawk have chosen the Crimson as the crew to beat...
...other half yearns to join Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on a back-lot Casablanca of the '40s to whisper: "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By." We seem to be not so much entering the new decade as backing away from it full steam astern...