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Harvard never let off the throttle, passing the Fawley point in 3:17, tied for the second fastest opening-round time. The Crimson maintained the pace to the finish, as it finished in a time of 7:05, a full two-and-three-quarter lengths ahead of the Royal Military Academy...
Harvard drew Rhode Island—a four-and-one-half length winner over Exeter University—in the round of 16 the following day. The Crimson backed off its torrid first-round pace, passing the Barrier and Fawley spots in 2:00 and 3:20 respectively...
...Midshipmen held their own, however, holding the lead at the Barrier and Fawley points. But the Proteus crew would not be denied, finishing a length ahead of the Naval Academy in a time of 6:57—tied for its slowest finish of the tournament...
...Jude Fawley, the Dorset country lad in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, doesn't want much--just to go to a university and live happily with his one true love, his cousin Sue Bridehead. But in the England of the 1880s, the peasant class was a prison from which few escaped, and love beyond the laws of propriety makes the lovers outcasts. Yet Jude stays stubbornly true to his desperate dreams. He will read his Latin authors and endure his pariah status with Sue "as long as it takes for the world to change...
...cruise. With Europe cut off from much of its Middle East oil, other sources had to be located rapidly. Campbell diverted Jersey tankers at sea and chartered others, kept the region fueled with a pipeline of ships bringing oil from the Western Hemisphere. At one point Esso's Fawley, England, refinery was handling a mid-American grade of oil called Rocky Mountain Sour that had never before been seen in Europe...