Word: mile-and-a-half
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...beginning and, by the time Harvard reached the first half-mile buoy, she was a good half length ahead, pulling thirty-six strokes to the minute. Harvard kept increasing the lead and, at the end of the first mile, had gained over a length on the Columbia crew. The mile was made in just six minutes. Up to this time both crews rowed in very fine form. Harvard, however, was evidently taking the matter rather easily up to this point. The crimson kept on increasing her lead, reaching the mile-and-a-half buoy in ten minutes...