Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race, the Cornell sight pulled ahead slowly with their most comparatively free of water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights...
...Under far more favorable conditions earlier in the afternoon, the Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...
...India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...
...only natural that they should come to the U. S. also. "The purpose of the visit here is not primarily political, although it is obvious that when the King visits a foreign country part of his purpose is to improve the ties of friendship with that country as far as he possibly...
Lowell and Adams are each awarded three places on the first team, and Lowell's twirler Dick Story is rated as the reserve pitcher, giving the Bellboys a fourth man in the selection, Charley Lutz of Adams is by far and away the outstanding pitcher in the League. The slim Junior, who played on his Freshman team two seasons back, has been charged with but one defeat this year and is chiefly responsible for keeping the Gold Coasters in the championship running...