Word: putney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power and all success to Hideo Takahashi, TIME, Sept. i, but the nose-wiping campaign in Japan was actually conceived in 1912 by Frank Putney Haight, Waukesha, Wis., and Edward C. Jones, Portage, same state, both employed at that time on editorial staff of The Japan Advertiser...
Rain threw wavering curtains across the arches of Putney Bridge as the two crews moved out and headed up the Thames. No Oxford crew had won since 1923, and because this one was rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned...
...There were swarming crowds milling decorously on the Surrey side near Putney Bridge as the crews took to the water, but they were quiet crowds, undulating gently at the slightest gesture of the bobbies...
April 12-Oxford-Cambridge boat races from Putney to Mortlake, England...
April 12?Oxford-Cambridge boat races from Putney to Mortlake, England...