Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson made its first challenge at the half-way mark, pulling even with Vesper or even ahead by a foot with 20 power strokes, but Vesper opened up again a lead of half a length. At the 1500 meter mark, however, Harvard moved even at 37 strokes a minute, and gradually glided ahead. Harvard finished at 36, Vesper at 351/2, with the winners 5.8 seconds ahead...
Dean Ford said that the decision to increase the tuition rate next year had been arrived at as part of Harvard's long standing policy of having students pay half their schooling costs, with the other half being made up from alumni money...
...before the Olympic trials in mid-July, Harvard fell quickly behind Vesper. At the halfway point on the Orchard Beach Lagoon course, Vesper held off a Harvard challenge, but the Crimson boat poured it on over the last 500 or 600 meters to win by a length and a half...
...year and a half ago Boston didn't have a hip community (defined as a large publicly-recognized group of people identified with no institution--as, for example, universities--other than their common resistance to most of the conventions of the society that was their environment...
...dictionary defines "Bohemian" as describing wandering Czech gypsies. The description accurately reflects the extent to which the average man was aware of a different group of people living in his town. That was a year and a half...