Word: meters
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...race itself was rather anticlimactic. The Crimson let UCLA surge into an early lead but then overtook the Bruins at the 500-meter mark and pulled away from there. At the finish line it was all Harvard, the varsity eight rowing home at a cadence of 39 strokes per minute, covering the 2000-meter course...
What a difference six months can make In Saturday's race Penn got off the start line quickest, but the Crimson cruised past its competition with a power 20 at the 800-meter mark, opening up a five-seat lead...
Navy failed to respond to the Harvard boat's move, and for the rest of the 2000-meter course the oarsmen never looked back. "I think Navy got a little discouraged when we moved on them so well right before the 1000-meter mark" Captain and bow-man Campbell Rogers said yesterday. "We showed that when we wanted to move on them we could...
...exhortations of coxswain Virginia Newman, together with the fine-tuned timing of the Black and White, moved Radcliffe through the opposition into a two-seat lead at the 1000 meter mark. It appeared the host boat was on its way to a victory when the Yalies started a final rally that inched them up to Radcliffe. The two boats see-sawed through the final 500 meters until Yale exploded in the final 10 strokes for the win. The disheartened Black and White trailed the Elis by 4 seconds...
...Tomaszow Lubelski, a town of some 20,000 people about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father ran a construction business until he became ill some years ago. She was a track star as a child; at eleven she had the best time in Poland in the 80-meter sprint. She began to be interested in the stage, but theater simply did not exist in her provincial town. When she took a bus to Warsaw at the age of 17, having had no training whatsoever and, amid a crowd of 400 applicants, qualified for one of 20 places...