Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columbia took the lead at the start at Poughkeepsie, but was soon passed by California. Just before the three-mile (three-quarters) mark, Stroke Eric Lambert raised the beat in the Columbia boat, killed California in a mighty struggle. Then along came the giants from Washington, thrashing down the turgid current almightily. But the youngsters from Columbia, averaging 19 years in age, had something left-an unbelievable spurt that Washington failed to catch by three-quarters of a boat-length. It was Columbia's first victory in the intercollegiate four-mile regatta since 1914. The winning time...
...Healy arose, furious. No chandelier could fall on him and not be punished. Not on your-ugh-life! He kicked the tangled mass, fetched a poker and beat it, smashed it, crashed it, until his comrades fell into the spirit of the thing and started flinging other things about the room-glasses, salvers, cruets, chairs, ale bottles...
...meet in a two-mile upstream clash. Yale is not tremendously powerful, having lost to Princeton, and the Crimson 1930 boat is a slight favorite. Captain Willard's boat, however, has a way of looking pretty in practice and not so fast under fire. In its one race it beat M. I. T. and Pennsylvania, but not by the margin which the difference in the appearance of the crews seemed to warrant...
...race for second crews which follows the Freshman encounter, will find two well-matched eights. Cornell's Jayvees lost to Yale and beat Harvard, so the Blue is slightly favored...
Careless of other worids, thy mind was beat...