Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although given a substantial lead by Record, which assured him of the race, Munroe anchor man for the Crimson quartet was able to keep up a pace fast enough to establish a new Triangular Meet record of 3 min. 27 1-5 sec. for the one mile relay team. Hennessey, leadoff man for the University fought a fierce battle with E. B. Noyes of Dartmouth throughout his entire lap, finally handing over a slight lead to Cummings who was able to increase this over Alcorn of Dartmouth and Rosenthall of Cornell. Record, third man for the University team, receiving...
...their last desperate spurt. They took the third game. Pell and Mortimer squared it with the fourth. The great moment had arrived ? the moment when Pell and Mortimer, according to their usual routine, should have carried the match away. Instead, Kemp-Welch and Cambridge lifted their pace another little bit and easily ran out the last and deciding game...
Friends of seals, friends of penguins were incensed last week at a despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...
...along slowly and that it will reach its peak of efficiency at the crucial moment, when the Blue skaters might well be burned out. They hark back to performances in the dim and not so dim past, to final series in amateur and pro ranks in which a whirlwind pace has been maintained to the final hurdle. At that point, they say, the spent leaders have tripped and fallen...
Among the lesser known prospects for the pace setting seat are A. G. Bullock '31, N. E. Long '32, and C. L. Dreyfus '31. Captain L. W. Dickey '30 appears at No. 7 in one of the eights with A. N. Webster '31, one of the best oars in last year's Jayvee eight, and M. M. Johnson '31, No. 5 of the 1929 first crew, rowing behind him at six and five respectively. They will be boated as follows...