Word: midafternoon
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...course has acquired, in the last three years, a legend of invincibility; people thought that Penn had a good crew, but not good enough; Columbia was not in it. In a wash of golden light that would have been sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand in his pocket, produced a red handkerchief and waved it, once; the Yale shell went up; Yale...