Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt by Luigi Beccalli of the University of Milan to make a new world record for the 1500 meters. Beccalli, the Olympic 1500 meters champion, established a world record of 3 minutes 49 seconds for the distance in 1932. This record held until Bill Bonthron shaved that mark to 3 minutes 48.8 seconds last June...
Louis has since stated that he never will come back to Harvard. He now "works the prep schools--St. Mark's, Groton, Milton, and so on. Those are the places the guys got a lot of dough...
Fourth Race, over an equilateral triangle with 10-mi. sides, was postponed for a day while Endeavour got a new Genoa jib. Rainbow got the better start. Endeavour passed her on the first leg. Shortly after rounding the mark, Rainbow over-took Endeavour, went on to win by more than a minute. After the race, Skipper Sopwith filed a protest with the America's Cup Race Committee. He stated that Rainbow had committed one breach of rules before the start, which enabled her to get across the line first, and another after rounding the first mark, which had enabled...
Fifth Race. The tugboat used for setting the course marks broke down, almost delayed the start. Endeavour's crew, which had functioned ably since the first race, bungled an attempt to set a spinnaker, let Rainbow get away first as usual. The only moment thereafter when Rainbow was in danger of losing her lead was when her parachute spinnaker split, halfway out on the 15-mi. run to leeward. She broke out a new one quickly, rounded General Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht Winchester, used for the halfway mark in the absence of a buoy, five minutes ahead...
Sailing a triangular course, Endeavour jumped early into the lead, held it serenely down the 10-mile broad reach to the southward. In the beat to the windward, Rainbow with brilliant tacks that time & again outmaneuvered the Englishman, showed its stern to the challenger to round the second mark almost three minutes ahead. Despite a great flash of savage speed in the home stretch, Endeavour was unable to overcome the three minute handicap, trailed home by 55 sec. Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been...