Word: markers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Settling to 37 strokes per minute, Harvard recovered. At the 1,000-meter marker, it was a dead heat, and just beyond the bridge, Harvard nudged to a one-seat lead...
...create a new variety of rose. The seeds of cross-pollinated blooms are culled and planted and the seedlings put down in the greenhouses-100,000 at a time. Every morning the young boss walks down the long, glass-covered alleys, pulling out some roses and placing white marker sticks next to the promising bushes...
...July 2nd, Harvard was paired first against the Leander Rowing Club, the best of the British eights. The London Morning Post called it a splendid struggle." Leander took the lead, but the Americans, rowing "with great dash," overtook them before the half way marker, and won by a length...
...Boston rowers set a slow pace; at the half-mile marker, both shells were rowing thirty-two strokes a minute. Then Harvard gradually stretched its meager four foot lead. The space between the two crafts widened to a length. In desperation the Union Boat increased its stroking, but they seemed to observers to be fighting with the river rather than gliding through it. The Harvards won by a length and a quarter, in the time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds...
Posters outside these three theatres make good reading even for weekend windowshoppers. There are glossy stills from the films--mostly nude women with their breasts and bottoms blacked out with magic marker. This proves to be somewhat misleading, since in the picture these same parts remain covered with panties and pasties, but most regular viewers eventually catch on to the trick...