Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy negotiated the mile and three-quarter course in nine minutes, four and five-tenths seconds, to down the Crimson eight by a length and a half. Harvard threatened only once during the race, when they pulled up to within striking distance of the Midshipmen...
...fastest time ever recorded for the four-mile course which runs past Krum Elbow and Hyde Park, home of President Roosevelt, and under the two bridges, was California's 18:35 4/5 in 1928. The same crew, which beat Columbia in this race by less than a boat length, went on to win an Olympic victory. A similar record although not in time, was hung up by the Golden Bears of 1923. California also won in 1934, following the depression lapse...
...Press. When he makes a speech it gets printed. When hospitable wags of the Kenwood Golf Club gave him a two-ounce bottle of whiskey marked "A Year's Supply," adding the gift of five toy battleships, not only did Washington columnists recount the hilarity at length but even printed that, four of the battleships hav-ing disappeared, Ambassador Saito tucked the last in his pocket, sardonically remarking: "Ah, such is justice in this world." During last year's London Conference, when Japanese delegates were trying to argue Japan up from the inferiority...
...proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
...discovered that even a good woman can fall physically in love, it was too late: Fitz-Greene had gone on a despairing bender in Philadelphia, picked up an unmentionable complaint. For some strange reason the doctors could do him no good. After holding his wife at arm's length for as long as he could stand it, he drowned himself in what looked like a skating accident. Clara knew it was suicide, but when at last she found out the reason, it made things a little better...