Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting at 44, the Crimson dropped quickly to between 31 and 32, and then at the Tech Sailing Pavilion, when the Varsity began to eat ahead, the beat dropped still another point. Bus Curwen kept his sprint under wraps, not going up until the final 30 strokes, and then not over...
Despite the field of five boats, attention will be focussed on two strokes, Harvard's Bus Curwen, and Navy's Phil Childs. What these two men do in all probability will determine the outcome of the season for both boats...
...experience, however, the charges of Farmer Tom Bolles should have a long edge. Lyman, Hallett Whitman, and Dave Challinor are rowing for their eighth spring, and for Bus Curwen, Richardson, and Pop Jenks this is the seventh. Johny Erskine and Scho Andrews are rowing for the third for coxswain Tommy Boynton, a total of 56 years of rowing experience...
...Restrictions on railroad passenger service for ordinary citizens are imminent, said ODT's Joseph Eastman. U.S. railroads, which last year handled 25,000,000,000 passenger miles, will have to handle more & more of the 15,000,000,000 highway-bus passenger miles, not to mention part of the private automobile load (last year some 250,000,000,000 passenger miles). In Britain, every railroad station now hangs out a sign saying "Is your journey really necessary...
...Crimson was on the receiving end of some of its own medicine Saturday afternoon when Cornell's powerful eight, although under stroking Captain Ted Lyman's boat, slowly eked out a half-length lead just after the three-quarter mile mark. Eventually Harvard's superior coordination and precision allowed Bus Curwen to raise the beat to a breathless 42, and in the final 20 strokes the Varsity surged ahead for the first time during the race to gain a nerve-wracking deck-length victory, enabling Harvard to retain the Rowe Memorial Cup for at least another year...