Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven miles long, the twister left at least 27 people dead, nothing but bald concrete slabs in the ground where homes once stood, and a small town with big gaps among its chains of families and friends...
Things looked that way. Harvard faltered at Princeton's three-mile race, losing to Yale's first and second boats...
...annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton (H-Y-P) five-mile cross-country meet was probably the first chance to see where Harvard stood in the Ivy League. The results were discouraging for both the men and women...
...women fared a little better than the men at the H-Y-Ps, placing second with 47 points, ahead of Yale's 70 points but well behind first-place Princeton's 19 points. Sophomore Margaret Schotte turned in a third-place finish on the 3.1 mile course with a time of 18:45.6, seven seconds ahead of junior teammate Margaret Angell, who placed sixth in the race...
...same nine teams competed as in the fall, but the men avoided a repeat of the last-place finish of the cross-country team. Instead the Crimson captured fourth place in the meet thanks to Carswell's winning times in the 3,000 (8:12.26) and the mile (4:07.23) as well as his role in running the anchor leg for the victorious distance medley team, the same team that had earlier qualified for a spot in the NCAAs...