Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coast of Palestine the weirdest and most wretched drama of the homeless was taking place. There, outside the three-mile limit, a collection of jampacked, unseaworthy little tubs lay waiting for a chance to run cargoes of permitless refugees ashore. There were Greek sailing schooners like the Panagiya Correstrio, usually carrying three fishermen, with 180 below decks; tramps like the grimy, 320-ton Assimi, flying the flag of Panama, which hauled 270 German and Central European Jews for 36 days before British officials arrested its captain; cargo boats like those which, unable to run refugees into Palestine, abandoned 424 Danzig...
Iceberg season on the North Atlantic is March 1 to July 1. The bergs are fragments of the mile-thick ice sheet which covers most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter...
Little is known about the strength of the British outfit, except that it beasts a capable three-miler (over there they leave two-mile races to schoolboys), and a very hot quarter-miler in the former of Pennington, British Olympic 220 ace. The Oxford-Cambridge outfit is also fairly strong in the hurdle department...
With the exception of the substitution of a three-mile for a two-mile run, the track events in the meet will not differ from American distance. The field events, however, will be pared down to broad jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, criminating the discus, hammer and javelin thrown...
Harvard men making the trip are: Charley Smith and Bob Gammons in the 100; Torby Macdonald in the 220; Jim Lightbody and Franny King in the 440; Al Hanlon in the half mile; Ros Brayton in the mile; Gene Clark in the two-mile; Don Donahue in the high and low hurdles, and Roger Schafer in the lows; Captain Bob Haydock in the high jump; Bob Partlow in the broad jump; Fred MacIsaan in the vault; and George Drowning and Howle Mendel in the shot...