Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Haines' fifty squad takes the spotlight in tomorrow's activities on the Charles, when it meets lightweight crews from Yale and Princeton in a triangular fight for the Goldthwait Cup, which has been lodged in the fifty room at Newell for the last three years...
...Latin-American subscribers and newsstands this week, by Pan American Clippers, go 20,000 copies of this issue of TIME, printed on lightweight paper-in English-the new Air Express Edition of TIME...
With the coming of daylight saving, U.S. railroads hiked the number of lightweight streamline trains to 115, up 75% in 17 months. Before 1941's end, at least 20 more will be added. Meantime many other trains were speeded up last week. Typical improvements...
...most exciting race of the afternoon was that staged by the Varsity 150's. Cornell's lightweight eight went out in front first by putting on the pressure early, then faded badly in the last half mile under the withering pace set by the Tech and Crimson fifties. At Harvard Bridge Johnny Abbot's boat had a quarter-length on the Engineers, but as the two shells came into the finish stroke for stroke the gray-bladed sweeps hit the water last and thrust the M. I. T. boat across the line first, a winner by a scant two feet...
Once again Bert Haines, Harvard's 150 coach, has had to resort to a time-trial to pick the eight he plans to send against Cornell and Tech tomorrow afternoon. As a result of yesterday's race between the two ranking lightweight boats, the shell which he had previously considered his Jayvee outfit will defend the 150 record...