Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably the best varsity swimming team in Harvard history will close out its season in the NCAA championships at Yale, today through Saturday. The Crimson should finish fourth of fifth...
Perennial winner Ohio State rates a slight edge over Yale for the team title, mainly on the strength of its 32 sure points in the dive. Iowa should finish a distant third with Harvard, North Carolina State, and Stanford battling it out for the next three positions...
...supersensitive finish line is difficult to imagine, also, because it must not be affected by the waves caused by the swimmers. Yet it must respond to the lightest pressure of the hand...
Finally, not all races finish at the end of the pool. Standard pools are 25 yards long. This means that for the 220 and 440, strings must be lowered across the water for the last abbreviated...
...races that finish at the pool end, however, a possible solution to the judging problem may rest in metal caps, worn on a swimmer's fingers, that would close a low-current electric circuit at the touch. Electricity in the water, though, is more than hazardous...