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...stroke of about 32 per minute at the first, the third boat starting over the mile and three quarters course a few seconds before the Jayvees; which in turn was given a slight lead over the University boat. It was not until the mile mark that the first crew overtook the Jayvees, and just beyond the mile and a quarter mark that the University and the Jayvee oarsmen were able to overtake Crew C. The race ended in a wild dash for the finish as the first boat raised its stroke of 34 to 40 in order to beat...
Paul, son of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, stroking the Emmanuel College crew, "bumped" (overtook) four other boats, won the Cambridge Inter-College Regatta on the River...
...fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric stones, and particularly...
...Rafael, Cal., Deputy Sheriffs Tracey and McGinnis spied a pair of lifeless legs dangling from the tonneau of a speeding car. They drew guns, pursued; overtook it. McGinnis covered the driver, Tracey flashed his badge...
...road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...