Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nosing through the dense fog that hung over the river yesterday afternoon, Cassedy's and Duruy's Varsity crews finished a 1 3-4 mile row in 5 minutes, 16 seconds. The crews did not sprint; Coach White side kept them at a beat of 28 for the whole course. Drury's crew did not lose the lead which it had held at the start, and paddled into the dock ahead of the first crew. Whiteside has made no changes in the seatings of any of his three boats since the vacation...
...Domestic Allotment Plan refurbished. It permits the Secretary to pay a farmer who reduces his 1933 crop what the law euphemistically calls a "benefit." How this crop cut is to be effected is left to the Secretary. The 1931 proposal to plow up every third row of cotton might be one method. Another might involve allowing a percentage of a crop to go unharvested. The farmer agreeing to cut his 1933 production would get a Government certificate on which he could borrow at the bank, the loan being repaid after the harvest when the Secretary is sure that he kept...
Lieut.-Commander Herbert V.Wiley, came on duty at midnight he changed the course to west. A half hour later the great ship plunged from its 1,600 ft. altitude. The commander reached for a row of pullcords overhead, yanked at them to release water ballast. Slowly, painfully, the shuddering Akron shouldered her way aloft again. An "all hands on" brought the off-watch from their bunks. Officers, bos'ns' mates, riggers, firemen groped their way along narrow catwalks to their stations...
...Cambridge victory, 13th since the War, made a record: it was the first time in the 104-year history of an event properly and completely described as "The Boat Race" that either crew had won ten times in a row. Last year, in a sporting effort to make the boat race more of a contest, Brigadier J. H. Gibbon, famed oldtime Cambridge "Blue" and amateur rowing coach, went to Oxford to see what was the matter. This year Brigadier Gibbon was helped by W. Palmer Mellen, young New Yorker who stroked the Oxford crew that won in 1923. Puzzled...
...Maribel Vinson, pretty Radcliffe senior from Winchester, Mass., and Roger F. Turner of the Skating Club of Boston: U. S. figure skating championships, each for the sixth time in a row; at New Haven, Conn...