Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arcturus has had rough voyaging all the way, from New York to Newport News, from Newport News to Bermuda (which was touched on Feb. 19) and since then at sea. Considerable breakage of crockery resulted; the heavy seas prevented deep sea trawling to bring up the little monsters from great depths. These live under such great pressure that they usually burst when brought to the surface because their high inward pressure, developed to meet the great weight of the water of the depths, cannot endure when they are lifted to the low pressure of the surface...
...mild weather, which made it possible for Coach Stevens to take his crews on the Charles in shells, at the earliest date in the rowing history of the University, was not in evidence yesterday. A cold wind and rough water kept all boats from the river and necessitated the use of the rowing tank for the first time this week. Practice in the tank was somewhat hampered by the lack of the airplane motor circulator which is temporarily out of repair...
...spring training trip was inaugurated last year when two eights left the rough water on the Charles, and enjoyed a week of rowing on the calm waters of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia. The Crimson crews rowed an average daily distance of 15 miles in Philadelphia, and Coach Stevens declared on his return to Cambridge that the trip had proved of inestimable value...
...that Breakspear quit the monastery of which he was Abbot in a pleasant Province, and proceeded, as Cardinal-Legate, to the rough untutored northlands of Denmark, Norway and Sweden...
...game was a fast and rough one. The frantic dashes and harsh playing of Captain Lane of Dartmouth made him the outstanding figure of the afternoon...