Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past eight years I have crossed this river almost twice daily, and have seen it sometimes as mudflats, sometimes brimming to the base of Cleopatra's Needle. The Thames is tidal to above London, and suicides' bodies are generally recovered miles downstream...
...Columbia basketball team participates in its heaviest weekend of the season when it opposes Harvard at Cambridge tonight and Dartmouth at Hanover on Monday. The Lions enter their New England jaunt with possession of third place in the Eastern Inter-collegiate League and with a season record of eight victories and four defeats...
Austie Harding opened the play for Harvard with a long, lopping shot at 2.45, and play continued fast for the first eight minutes with both squads very evenly matched, and Johnson made several lovely saves before the tricolor knotted the count near the end of the period...
...young women of the last two decades have taken to bringing so many stalwart sons into the world, sons of six foot and more, that there are more candidates for crews of Eight than the Newell can take care of. So they degraded me to the Weld, that is they graduated me backwards. But I kept up my pulls from the Cambridge Boatclub House for about six weeks after Newell and Weld had closed for the season. Yours truly C. R. Lanman...
...Charles Rockwell Lanman was born in 1850 and graduated from Yale in 1871. Appointed professor of Sanskrit here in 1880, he is now emeritus. Three years ago he was one of the eight non-Japanese scholars awarded the Japanese Medal at the celebration of the 2500th anniversary of Buddha's birth. The fabulous number of miles he has rowed since coming here has won him the title "Charles River" Lanman...