Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, rowed up to a flying start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
...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 oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed to keep the water from lapping at the gunwales inboard until they reached the boat house...
Under far 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...
...Franklin and Eleanor had been married 13 mos., 27 days when Anna arrived. Their children, with one exception, have been quicker. Anna bore her first 9 mos., 20 days after marriage. Elliott became a father 10 mos., i day after his first marriage, 9 mos., 17 days after his second. Franklin Jr. fathered Franklin III a year and 20 days after he married Ethel du Pont. Only James lagged behind. He had been a husband 21 months before he became a father...
...Forward to Forty" dinner, scheduled in Washington last week. Taking note that Ohio's Senator Taft had stuck his neck out at the first such dinner TIME, May 1), Mentionables Dewey of New York, Bricker of Ohio and James of Pennsylvania declined to speak at the second...