Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After quite a spirited race during which the second formation tried in vain to catch up with the first, Bolles gave the signal to stop. A new grouping was instituted. This time all ten shells spread out in a single line spanning the Charles in a graceful effect. Cameramen had a hey-dey. But they missed catching "Spike" Chace, who was out with a cold. Oarsmen were exhausted...
White, of Bowdoin, holder of the New England league records in the 50 and 100, will also compete. He can negotiate the two-lap race in 23.4, and the century in 53.4. Men from Rutgers, Cornell, Wesleyan, Brown and Springfield will be in the running as well...
Captain Charlie Hutter, restricted by meet rules to competition in three events, will swim the 50,100, and 400 relay, thus being unable to race in the 220, in which event he is National champion. Contrary to reports from Yale, Eli captain Johnny Macionis will not be able to swim...
...that he is "a go-getter, interested more in construction, material welfare and money than in anything else." Of German Americans, he estimated, only 1% are obtrusively Nazi. He calls the Germans "the most important, and most admirable, and generally loyal, but least lovable of all our foreign-language race groups." Poles, everywhere happy & contented, "dream at night of planting wheat and cabbages," detest Communism and Fascism as they do their hereditary enemies Russia and Germany. Among the White Russians of Westbury, Long Island, Seabrook was surprised to discover that not all Russian emigrés are married...
...anti-foreign alarmists in general Author Seabrook wags his finger: "You can find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...