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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple matter. The oars must leave the water together, a snap of the wrists must feather them, and the crewmen must slide their bodies forward and their oars back into position again with a smooth, even motion that does not check the run of the shell. If this much is accomplished successfully the whole cycle begins again, and each man must concentrate on doing exactly the same thing in the same way once more--about 300 time in a mile-and-three-quarters race, or about 700 times in the classic four-mile Yale race at New London...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...race itself will not involve too much that is new. Ideally, it will follow exactly the same pattern as has been practiced for weeks in time-trials. There is not much that can be done in the last hour except to sweat out the starting time...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

Barry Turner pitched a much finer game than the box scores show, and with some sort of support from the men around him, the result might have been different. On the basis of yesterday's showing, however, the visitors from Worcester were definitely the superior club...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Misplays Hurt Nine as Cross Triumphs, 6-1 | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

This is not unduly skeptical viewpoint. It is one that has only too much precedent to back it up: the Soviet bloc and the American bloc. have a practically unbroken record of non-agreement since the end of the war, and no matter who is to blame in each case, the cause of permanent world peace has been the sufferer. But there can be end to failures; there can be a beginning to successful Russian-American bargaining, and the time for such a beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Wind | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Playing later in the afternoon, the second team had a much easier time defeating the New Preparatory School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Tennis Team Defeats Andover, 6-3 | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

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