Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good. The 1927 season seemed, at the beginning, no exception. With an all-sophomore crew, which had been magnificent in 1926 as freshmen, Columbia's hopes were thwarted on the Housatonic River in May by Yale. Then Columbia tried a shakeup, put a couple of upperclassmen in the boat, trailed the Navy and Princeton in the combined Stewards' and Childs' Cup regatta at Philadelphia a few weeks later...
While on the boat bringing him back to the U. S., General Wood was thrown to the deck by a sudden lurch of the boat; refractured three ribs which he had broken in a recent automobile accident near Manila...
Slowly, like an irresistible maritime creature, the Yale boat moved up almost on even terms with Harvard. Suddenly, No. 6 in the Yale boat "caught a crab" (cut the water at the wrong angle, upsetting the rhythm of the crew...
...Yale boat floundered, paused, began a new and desperate rhythm-but Harvard was too far ahead and too powerful to be caught. Harvard won by three-quarters of a length-its first varsity crew victory over Yale since 1920. That night, there was toasting of Coach Edward Brown, whose first year at Harvard was crowned with the fruits of the Thames...
...entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome, 68, famed author and humorist; at Northampton, England; of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was progressively, from 14 years on, office clerk, actor, author, editor; wrote Three Men in a Boat, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Wood Barrow Farm, etc. Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Hope, Richard le Gallienne, who liked him, wrote for his periodicals...