Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Junior Charlie Altekruse, who anchors The Engine Room, the middle section of the varsity boat that guns the oarsmen, adds, "I expect they'll be hanging in there. They always row well against us." But never well enough...
Brown brings a significant size advantage to today's race, as the Crimson average only 6-ft.-2-in. and 185-lbs., small by coach Harry Parker's usual standards. The Bruin's pre-season roster showed four of the varsity boat averaging 6-ft.-4-in. or more. Additionally, Brown has the advantage of experience, with seven of the 1978 eight returning...
...sometimes wonders why these people who think there is nothing left to write end up killing so many trees. But Barthelme cares about art; perhaps more than any other contemporary figure, he is trying. I am left with this mental picture: Barthelme, sitting in the prow of a sinking boat, the noble idiot frantically bailing...
Saturday, April 15, 1978. The Princeton heavyweight crew cruised to an eight-second victory over the Radcliffe eight on a choppy Charles River course. The Cliffe J.V. dropped its first race ever in second boat competition, falling by 11 seconds to its Tiger counterpart...
...Yale is about the only other boat we have to worry about," sophomore seven-seat Anne Benton said yesterday. Still, the Eli women lost only one rower from last year's eight that crushed the varsity by 16 seconds in New Haven, and that looked like a good bet to win the cancelled Sprints...