Word: metering
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...come from behind in our other races, so the race against Navy and Penn was very different from our previous two races,” Medioli said. Indeed, the varsity eight started the race off well, taking the lead over the rest of the field by the 500-meter mark and never looking back. “It was a little tough to determine who was leading in the beginning because we were lined up on a stagger at the start,” Medioli said. “But we were ahead of Navy 400-500 meters...
...push allowed the Crimson to pull even with the rest of the field and all three crews came across the 1000-meter mark of the race even...
...varsity race, the Crimson battled throughout and even managed to pull even at the 500-meter mark. However, strong sprints from the Midshipmen and the Hoyas led Harvard to finish in third place...
...varsity eight fell behind off the start and found itself about half a length down from the Navy and Georgetown boats at the 500-meter mark. At this point, He called on his crew to begin an aggressive middle-1000 sequence and to take seats against the Midshipmen and the Hoyas...
...strictness of topic and word-choice that demand economy of expression. They exemplify the idea that art is born of constraints and dies in freedom. But imposing restrictions that are unnatural in English has doomed many translations. McMillan succeeds by following a more sensible rule: abandoning the stipulated meter, but making the poems as lyrical in translation as they are in classical Japanese...