Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junior singles A. Lincoln outrowed R. Cram in the time of 6:02. Hughes Call won the Narrow Comp race in the time of 4:00; R. Wilcox won the Broad Comp race in the time of 3:69. King won the 150-lb singles...
Then things began to happen, as a ripping sleet, hail, and rain storm hit the boats with the Crimson in the offshore lane. Up to this point the boats were rowing a usual race, with Cornell lagging with its characteristically slow start. The boats failed to emerge from the storm until after the race was ever, and at times they were completely obscured from the launches only a few yards away...
Keeping its stroke down to below thirty for a good part of the race, the Cornell sight pulled ahead slowly with their most comparatively free of water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering...
...more favorable conditions earlier in the afternoon, the Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...
...official Republicans of Michigan . . . unanimous belief . . . Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg should be drafted for the next Republican Presidential nomination." Thus last week the Governor, President of the State Senate, Speaker of the House and Republican elective officials at Lansing thrust Michigan's sartorially perfect Senator into the Presidential race from which he has ostentatiously and repeatedly withheld himself. Senator Vandenberg, flush with success after beating down the Florida Ship Canal Bill, said he was "grateful." Manhattan's Michigan-born racket buster, Tom Dewey, consistent favorite in the Republican race, who agreed to the Vandenberg endorsement, will now look...