Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of Roll, while severe in itself, was not the hardest blow to the Crimson, Polhemus, rowing in his place, turned a creditable performance. It was, however, the disruption of the crew of eight that had worked together since restart of the season and had perfected smooth style, that emphasized Roll's absence...
Between Massachusetts Avenue and the Longfellow Bridge, the crew steadily lost ground, ending the race a good length behind Cornell, and one and a half lengths behind victorious Tech. The Harvard boat's drift off course was instrumental in determining the winner...
...Ranks. In Ed Pauley's career there had been little to qualify him for the task ahead. He operated spectacularly in the oil business from the time he was graduated from the University of California in 1923 (he had been an un spectacular two-letter man: football, crew). As an independent, he battled the big oil companies for a time on production allotments and in price wars, managed to make himself a sizable business. In 1932, he set off on a flyer in politics, by 1936 was an active and aggressive Democratic party worker...
With traditional Harvard-Yale competition broken off for the duration, neighboring M.I.T. has come to replace the Blue, and last Saturday's Varsity crew win over the Engineers on the Charles, the first since the spring of 1943, was so sweet that nobody minded much when Navy would up two lengths ahead at the finish...
Coming from behind over the last quarter mile, the Varsity looked like former Crimson eights, which under Tom Bolles, established Harvard as the nation's top crew power. Bolles, on leave of absence, would have enjoyed the Crimson's driving finish Saturday...