Word: midstream
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...Clark of Harvard crew fame decided last week to recapture a bit of his youth so he donned his rowing clothes and pushed out upon the stormy Charles. In midstream the shell capsized and John finished his row with a brisk swim...
...most successful crew coach in decades will leave his charges in midstream this year to accept a commission in the Navy. Tom Bolles, a fixture here since 1936, will leave on Saturday to report for indoctrination at Columbia University in New York. Bert Haines will take over Bolles task of whipping the oarsmen into shape for the rest of the season...
...Newport News, Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commander of the carrier Yorktown when she was sunk after Midway, June 7, was midstream in a speech celebrating the launching of a new carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...
...solid week defending British Imperial troops systematically cut down a succession of small Japanese detachments venturing across the Salween. One large-scale crossing attempt was a dismal and costly failure: R.A.F. fighters and bombers pounced on invasion barges in midstream, left hundreds of the invaders dead, dying or scrambling in the swift water. The battered Japanese waited for fresh reinforcements from Thailand before risking another crossing attempt. Burma's commander Lieut. General Thomas Jacomb Hutton spoke confidently: "We are in a far sounder position to call a halt to the Japanese than before...
...propitious chapters of the novel Wolfe was working on when he died. The Hills Beyond was to be the story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder and myth. Somewhere past midstream in his transition from wild lyric romanticism to humanism, this prose here lost in effusive splendor, but gained in wit, firmness and control...