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...broke through a light fog as the rival strokes dipped their blades. There was a hush−then cheers. For a moment the lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven Steps, marking the mile, Cambridge led by three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths...
Hollis-"The Nineteenth Hole". An amusing skit on golf by a man who is a skilled hand at writing good comedies. II s'appelle Frank Craven...
...presided over by Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Staff, passed by ten of the first 15 captains on the eligible list. The chance of a captain to become a rear-admiral was thus 3 to 1, against. Last year it was 2.7 to 1, against. Captain Thomas Tingey Craven...
...from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...
...Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which an English court allowed the mutineers who had marooned their captain,-none of these things escaped the attention of Author Powys. He writes about them with his customary precision...