Word: chopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Dick promised Maisie as they sat on the beach and watched the signal rockets flare from the bridge of the "Bharralong," south-bound in the Channel chop, is fulfilled in "White Shadows of the South Seas." The fascination of strange peoples and new scenes lies at some time on every one, and among all the harvesters of exotic flowers who have written of happier climes and simpler manners, till there has been of late years no end of making books about the South Seas, Frederic O'Brien takes high place...
...races held yesterday afternoon between the three first class crews and the second Senior eight, the Senior crew was victorious, winning by a length and a quarter from the Sophomore boat, which came in second. The conditions were somewhat unfavorable, due to an upstream wind and a slight chop in the water. The Senior crew, which is composed partly of the members of last year's 1920 eight which defeated the winning Yale crew last spring by over 10 lengths, had the advantage of their experience...