Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crews started preparation for their races at Cornell on Saturday with a long row upstream yesterday afternoon. There were two temporary changes in the boats, John Watts '28 resting while James Perkins '27 stroked the first eight and J. B. Olmstead '27 replacing J. H. Harwood '27 on the seconocrew, Harwood being ill. Olmstead rowed 4 yesterday and William Emmet '29, the regular 4 man, shifted to the 5 seat. Emmet is more comfortable on the starboard side of the boat...
While the University crews invade New York State, the 150-pound eight and still unnamed Third University boat will spend the week end in Philadelphia, taking part in the American Henley. The Crimson lightweights may put up a close race, for the defeat they suffered Saturday was not a bad one. DeNormandie was stroking his first race, and the crew, which kept up well for about a mile, found the pace a bit too hot near the finish. The eight should do better at Philadelphia...
...Council member is of the firm of McFadden, Sands and Company, Boston cotton merchants, and at the time of his graduation was First Marshal of his class. During the last two years of his undergraduate career Lawrence played on the football team as well as rowing on the University eight. The wide interest in Harvard affairs which he has held since his graduation is shown in the fact that he is a director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and last year at the time of his twenty-fifth reunion, he was chief marshal at commencement...
Nungesser & Coli. More than eight days had passed since Capt. Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, idol of Paris, onetime cowpuncher in Argentina, multi-wounded War ace with platinum-patched bones, and Capt. François Coli, son of a hardy clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death...
...Semi-automatic shot gun, shooting eight shells (usually buckshot). The barrel is shortened to permit easy handling, wide pattern of shot. The Winchester and Remington companies manufacture many such for policemen...