Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April, First National Pictures will launch a campaign to secure for the screen those Grecian visages which to date have been obscured by the dust of the pursuit of knowledge. The fortunate youths will forthwith be shipped prepaid to Burbank, California where they will be tested thoroughly for eight weeks at $50 per week. Should the neophytes meet with the approbation and unqualified admiration of this branch of the cinema world, they will be reengaged on a scale of rapidly mounting salaries...
...three crews which Coach Brown has retained on the A squad will race over the basin course this afternoon for the second time this week if weather conditions are not prohibitive. Since the race on Tuesday afternoon eight men have been dropped to squad B and it is expected that Monday will see the first squad reduced to two crews. The three eights which will clash in the basin tomorrow are as follows...
That this is not a permanent arrangement has been emphasized by Coach Brown, who says that he intends to pick no definite crews until during or after spring vacation. It is expected that an entire eight will be dropped next week and that sometime before vacation these men together with the oarsmen who have been working on the B outfit will be turned over to Coach Hobson to be organized as class eights...
There was come conjecture about the boat house yesterday, due to the fact that the name of John Watts '28 was not to be found on the A squad list Watts, who stroked the second University eight to a hard fought victory over Yale last year at New London, has been chosen by the critics as a strong bidder for the stroke position in the first boat this season. Yesterday he went out in the launch with Coach Brown and it was rumored that he will row with the Freshman crews for the remainder of the week...
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