Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completed the day's program, began, the Freshmen were leading by 8 2-3 points, the score standing at 67 1-3 to 58 2-3. M. A. Cheek Jr., the only possible Crimson point-winner in the event, fell short of the third best Yale distance by a scant two inches, and all three places went to the Blue team, giving them a victory with a count...
Freshman four-oared crew D, which has defeated the Exeter seconds and lost to Middlesex, added another victory to its record when it nosed out the Noble and Greenough four-oared boat by a scant half-length. The race was held over the half-mile course above the Infirmary. Gore crew A reached the finish in the interdormitory race less than half a length in the lead of Standish A over the Henley distance. The Smith crew A was in third place, close behind Standish...
...scored a clean-cut victory from the Senior eight and four other class crews yesterday afternoon over the mile and seven-eighths course on the Basin. Capturing an early lead, the 1925 oarsmen finished with a length of open water over the Seniors, who led Sophomore B by a scant half length. Sophomore C, crew X, and the Junior class eight finished in the order named...
...scant three quarters of a length separating the rival shells at the finish testified to the closeness of the struggle. It was a hammer and tongs affair all the way down the course, with Crew C always in a challenging position, but the 1925 oarsmen had a perceptible advantage-sufficient to drive their boat across to a decisive victory. It is probable that the two crews will come together again tomorrow in a race over the Henley distance...
...crews, the rival strokes, Brown and Amory, keeping their shells pretty well abreast of each other. Spurt matched spurt for the last couple of hundred yards, but the third eight, rowing only seven-eighths of a mile, had the advantage of endurance and pulled out at the finish a scant quarter length ahead. The Junior eight finished three lengths behind...