Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday afternoon, the Lightweights started fast with a 40 beat in the first minute and pulled away from the third Varsity quickly and steadily throughout the half mile, until they had a length at the finish. Bert Haines wouldn't announce the time, but he was grinning broadly as he admitted it was "fast...
...discount at drug stores is not correct. The fact is that members are furnished prescription medicine at cost, whatever that may be. It is evident that a drug store could not exist any length of time by selling medicine at a 66⅔% ( discount...
...Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime Princeton physics professor, the Compton Cup for the first four years was won regularly by Princeton. Last week this embarrassing situation ended when Harvard's varsity boat, smoothly stroked by Jim Chace, slipped across the finish line a length ahead of Princeton and five ahead...
...three other races on the program, Princeton's only winners were its freshmen. Harvard's junior varsity (its only other entry) won by a length. Little M. I. T., which lacks the facilities of its two rivals, beat Princeton's 150-lb. boat by three feet. Crew critics agreed that Coach Bolles, whom Harvard hired after his Washington freshmen beat five other freshmen crews at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June, had brought Washington efficiency to Harvard's boat in record time, anticipated an even livelier rivalry than usual this June at New London when Coach Bolles...
...Jayvee race proceeding had been no loss thrilling. They too went off to an easy start, settled down to a steady 32. But unlike the Varsity race, the Tigers, three or four strokes higher, pulled away to a 1 1-2 length lead at the quarter. They could not hold it, and a mile later the two boats were even as they entered the last half...