Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile and a quarter mark, Bill Rowe proved his ability to raise the stroke by raising the beat to a good thirty-eight. The strong fast sprint roughened the crew's form a bit, but not enough to hurt the spacing too noticeably. The sprint was held until the end of the race and as the crew crossed the finish, the sweeps were cutting out a sharp thirty-nine...
Showing the best form of the year, the Jayvees crashed through with a victory by a roughly estimated seven lengths. With this year's second eight made up mostly of "comers" they have shown unusual spirit and will probably turn out as a marvelous crew this season...
...Pacific. But he had left in the Atlantic (and for the New York World's Fair) much more than the small Atlantic Squadron normally on eastern duty. By the order, four battleships, twelve cruisers, 23 destroyers, two aircraft carriers, six submarines would stay behind. Westward were to go eight battleships, 15 cruisers, 43 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 20 auxiliaries...
...member of the class of Harvard, 1937, who attended this school, publicly boasted that he had received a diploma from Harvard after attending only five classes between February and June of his senior year. Another member of this year's freshman class, had forty-eight outs from classes before Christmas. At the time of the Harvard-Yale football game in Cambridge a year ago, one of our graduates visited the quarters of some Harvard friends; and reported that there were sixteen men living together in one house, that the entire house contained but one desk; and that not a single...
...first half eight goals had been chalked up and in the second a ten composed chiefly of subs accounted for the additional two tallies...