Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small estate on the Thames River, just above New London, Connecticut, is busier than the bar at a class reunion. Here, in complete seclusion, two dozen Harvardmen devote their waking hours to the achieving of the one supremely traditional object of Crimson sports: beating Yale in the four-mile crew race late in June...
Behind this picture lie many decades of experimentation with training quarters and procedures for the annual grind, longest crew race in the world. Although the crew rows distances up to on miles a day in practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles--"leave it to the British to pick such an unorthodox distance" says Bill Bingham--through the mile-and-three-quarters, two-mile, and 2000 meter courses...
...Sailed up to Annapolis aboard the Williamsburg, brought good luck to Navy athletes, who swept their "June Week" crew races with Cornell, walloped the Army baseball team 10-to-0 as the President whirred away with his movie camera...
Unbeaten Cornell still looms as Harvard's biggest contender for National laurels here. The Big Red took Yale, Penn, Princeton, and assorted other Eastern potentates to the cleaners last Saturday, thereby entrenching itself more firmly as the crew to beat. The Crimson's next biggest worry is Washington, an all-veteran boat that gave Harvard a run for its money in Seattle last year, and which recently established itself over California as western champion...
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