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...margins. It had broken the Charles record by ten seconds and obliterated the Lake Carnegie (Princeton) record by 20. It has beaten the field in the Eastern sprints by two and a half lengths, a record margin in the 2000-meter race. And it had left Yale ten lengths astern in the four-mile chase down the Thames River in New London...
...surprised and obviously very pleased. "Our goal for this course was to get under 8:40 sometime during the season," he said afterwards. Conditions for the race were almost perfect, he said. A stiff breeze blow across the boats' port side, but Parker wasn't sure that it was astern enough to account for the fast time...
...score of cold observers on the Weeks Bridge watched eagerly as the eight boats jockeyed for the start opposite Weld, and then headed full tilt for the bridge, blown by a brisk 20-knot wind from astern...
...competitors were hull down on the horizon. Ondine had disappeared entirely. "We kept getting position reports on the other ships by radio-all the ships but Ondine, that is," said Stormvogel's Helmsman John Miles. "We thought obviously that she must be so far astern we just couldn't pick...
...beetle seems to know this and uses its emergency throttle sparingly. Linsenmair and Jander watched Stenodus beetles turning and weaving like PT boats, as if to catch their enemies squarely in their wakes. Like most weapons, though, the Stenodus' go power can be outmaneuvered: the detergent works only astern, and water striders on frontal-attack patterns made kills every time...