Word: bort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a canny Eli crew captured the 150-lb. title in the Joe Wright Cup rogatta at Princeton last Saturday, it was Coach Bort Haines' polished Crimson eights which gained the greatest honors of the day by smashing course records on the Lake Carnegie. Honley distance...
When eight 150-lb, Varsity crows meet on Lake Carnegio this weekend, Bort Haines' first boat will be up against competition that will really test its mettle. Along with the Crimson race Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Manhattan, Princeton, Syracuse, and M. I. T. boats in the lightweight classic of the season...
Likewise encouraging was the showing of the weight men in the afternoon, for both Bort Littman and Steve Bronnan came in to gain second places in the shot and weight throws respectively, although both of them were well back of the winners, Yale's thrower John Harvard Castle and the Big Green's putter Geniawiez...
...yearlings under Bert which will probably be chosen to stay are the present first two crews, but Bort is not definite about the positions and there will probably be some changes at the end of today's row. Chace, stroke of the first boat, cut his hand yesterday and will be on the injured list most of vacation it is thought. The tentative seatings in the first boat are: stroke, Edgar B. Van Winkle, 2nd; 7, Edmund S. Twining, Jr.; 6, Douglas Erickson; 5, John S. Radway; 4, Scott; 3, John Gardiner; 2, Clark; bow, Peter T. Brooks...
...adventure. But the record of eight stratosphere flights by man makes it seem unlikely. Whether undertaken for science or as record-breaking stunts they were for the most part either comedies or tragedies. The stratosphere itself was discovered from the ground. In 1896 a French meteorologist named Teisserenc de Bort sent up sounding balloons with automatic instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure...