Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance of which he has not yet determined. Crew X has shown as decided a superiority over Crew Y as the latter eight has shown over Crew Z in the workouts thus far. Nevertheless Coach Stevens was emphatic in declaring Crew Z "a consider- ably better eight than any bunch I had out here last Fall...
Three Arlington runners crossing the line in a bunch for fourth, fifth, and sixth places ruined Harvard's chances of winning the meet. Perkins of Arlington beat his teammates, O'Neil and Walsh, to the finish. Warren Taylor '28 was close upon this group, finishing a strong seventh...
...course) after the first revolver shot had been fired. To relieve the general feeling of uneasiness in the audience further a soprano came out between the acts with "What Do You Do Sunday, Mary"--which didn't make us feel a bit better. She was rewarded with a big bunch of dahlias. At least they looked like dahlias, although we strained every botanical sense trying to tell ourselves that they were chrysanthemums, lilies, or anything else. We are sure anyway that it was a soprano, and she seemed reasonably surprised to get them...
Then the big events-the Pulitzer Cup race and the John L. Mitchell Trophy race. Eleven army pilots competed for the latter, flying Curtiss PW-8 planes with 480-horse engines. They went in a roaring bunch around the triangular course, flirting about the turns so closely that one man's wingtip severed a guy wire supporting a pylon. Lieut. Cyrus Betts, winner, made 175.43 m.p.h. for the 124.27 miles raced...
There were two compensations for lovers of brilliance and movement. First, the costumes: Anne Roselle, as Tosca, for instance, appeared in the first act in a chrome orange satin skirt and bodice, a purple velvet jacket and hat, a bunch of crimson roses tied with baby-blue ribbon. Second, the Russian ballet divertissements which lent touches of exotic sprightliness at the conclusion of the evenings. The agonies of Tosca were thus relieved by Rimsky-Korsakov's sinuous Siamese Dance...