Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east's major intercollegiate regatta will take place this year, for the first time, on the Potomac River at Washington, D.C., Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday...
...annual meet was originally scheduled for the Seven River at Annapolis. After Bolles and a committee surveyed the Potomac site at last month's NCAA meetings, they decided that it would serve perfectly well, also. The clinching argument, Bolles indicated, was that some 50,000 alumni of the rowing colleges are at present living in or near Washington, and are a potential paying audience...
...unnerving week for the city by the Potomac. There was just nothing left to do but go on with the droning buzz-buzz. But, as everybody well knew, there wasn't a conversation in town that wouldn't be broken off when the big parade rolled...
...Unlike the coronation of a British monarch, or the installation of a Chibcha chief, the inauguration of an American President has never quite lost a certain air of improvisation: democracy, on this occasion, wants to wear a silk hat, but it also wants to knock silk hats into the Potomac...
Thomas D. Bolles, director of Athletics, told the CRIMSON that he and representatives of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges had surveyed a possible spring regatta site on the Potomac River yesterday...