Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the oarsmen could register their eighth consecutive sweep of the Blue crews (a streak unequalled in the history of the event) they had some tough going...
Last Saturday, Willo won the event in the Heptagonal Games at Princeton with a heave of 153 feet, 61/2 inches. His best mark of this year is 157 feet, 1/2 inch...
Paul Coste, who also figured in Friday's triumph, landed in a triple tie for fifth place by shooting a score of 171. Mulcahy's 82-81, which nosed out Jack Harvey, of Boston College, by two strokes, was the highest score ever to win the event and made him the fourth Harvardian to wear the crown...
...usual, your issue of April 29 relentlessly chronicles the hebdomadal manifestations, outstanding and otherwise, of human pusillanimity, stupidity, and cupidity, culled throughout the world by an impressively multifarious staff. . . . But the one truly great event of the week-indeed, of the entire postwar period so far-is not even mentioned. I refer, of course, to the magnificent gesture of the survivors of the heroic Underground of Crete . . . who, by refusing Allied compensations almost to a man, gave to us all the privilege of holding our heads a little higher...
Attendance at the Lake Washington event may reach 100,000. Since legal difficulties prohibit an admission fee, spectators will be able to view the regatta free of charge from the more-than-a-mile-long floating concrete pontoon bridge...