Word: lengths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next week-end found a highly-rated Dartmouth team sweeping into Cambridge and running amuck of a driving Crimson offense. It was sheer power which enabled the University eleven to carry the ball practically the whole length of the gridiron in the closing minutes of play and add the final touchdown to a glorious 19 to 7 victory. The Green score was the result of a clever aerial attack which frequently baffled the Cambridge defenders...
...Yale crew has displayed consistently better form and display-pressive times in their trials during the past week the Harvard stroke has steadily improved throughout the week's practice. The long steady beat of the Crimson crew will be at its best in the four mile grind where the length and extent of the competition tends to favor the slower, more powerful stroke that has been set by the Crimson sweepswingers. The stroke employed by Brown, while at a great disadvantage in the shorter races against Tech, Cornell and Pennsylvania earlier in the season, will unquestionably show its greatest strength...
...Yale stroke, set at a much higher beat, makes little use of the long lay-back favored by the Harvard oarsmen, with the result that the Blue tipped oars, while at a higher clip, do not pull the length of water handled by the Crimson sweeps...
...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
...broadcast will be made on the regular wave length so that it may be picked up anywhere on the North American continent, but it will be supplemented by the short wave which is regularly used to send messages to Commander Byrd's camp 11,000 miles away...