Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-minute, Spike Chace's boat kept up a smooth easy stride and finished in 7:09.6. The two or three feet gained by Tech at the opening gun vanished as the Crimson, rowing 37 to M. I. T.'s 40 and Rutgers 38, crept up for a half-length lead which they increased to a length by the three-quarters...
From then on the Engineers and New Jersey boats began to wobble and lose ground rapidly. Tech put it up to 32 at the mile and Rutgers soon afterwards to 35, but Chace had it steadied at 30 with a length and a half of open water to spare...
...Jayvee Race was the only other three-cornered affair. Paced by Bill Rowe, the Harvard oarsmen quickly sprinted out ahead of M. I. T. and a slower Rutgers eight. By the half-mile they had increased it to a length and were rowing 34 to the Tech 32, the Scarlet...
...Jersey-men at the mile marked failed to gain any ground and they fell behind the Engineers. Different from their splashing contestants the Crimson blades kept the stroke down until the last minute when a snappy leg drive at 36 jumped the Bolles boat into a lead of a length and a half of open water...
...Savarona is one of the three largest, most elegantly appointed yachts in the world. She is exceeded in length only by the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert and the Italian royal yacht Savoia, in tonnage by only the Victoria and Albert. Designed like a fast transatlantic passenger ship, carrying a crew of 83, she was built at a cost of $2,000,000 in the Blohm & Voss shipyards of Hamburg...