Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first big race on the Hudson, July 2, 1901." For it was the big Red crew that won the first three races and 10 of the first 12 races. Since that time, the Cornell record has not been as high although in recent years they have been standing with Columbia as the best the East can offer against the double western threat of Washington and California...
During the first 13 years of the Poughkeepsie Regatta, victory was an upstate New York monopoly, for when Cornell did not win, Syracuse did. In the last three races prior to the three-year lapse during the war, Columbia, Cornell, and Syracuse were the respective winners. When competition was resumed in 1920, Syracuse again won. It was not until two decades after the first race that Navy, a natural for the rowing sport, was able to break the ice. Pennsylvania, the fifth member of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, has never crossed the line a winner...
...Columbia University he founded the first student flying club, took the first Master of Arts degree ever given in Aeronautics (1910). He joined the Wright Brothers, became their general manager. In 1914 the U. S. Army Signal Corps made him its Chief Aeronautical Engineer. First thing he did was condemn all the Army's Wright and Curtiss pushers as unsafe to fly. After the War he founded his own company, built the world's first successful amphibian...
...years ago when Iphigene Ochs* said yes, she would marry him. He was 26 (a year older than Miss Ochs), and he wore the uniform of a second lieutenant when they were married in his native Manhattan. They had known each other since college days when he went to Columbia and she to nearby Barnard. Father Ochs smiled on the match, imposed only one stipulation: whoever became his son-in-law must also work on the Times. Willingly Arthur quit the silk business at which he had worked for his father, Cyrus L. Sulzberger. From his philanthropist father, Arthur...
...Columbia Broadcasting System has given particular consideration to recent trends in two general types of commercial program: those which are de-signed for children, and those involving unpleasant discussions of bodily functions, bodily symptoms, or other matters which similarly infringe on good taste. In addition . . . careful study has been given to the amount of time that should be used by sponsors for their advertising messages...