Word: severn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ago at Annapolis the Varsity covered the same distance 59 seconds quicker than Saturday. While the conditions were worse at Navy than on the Charles, the wind and tide were both favorable on the Severn. Saturday the breeze came in stinging gusts out of the North, setting up a cross chop which made fast times an impossibility...
When the wind which enabled the Varsity to smash all records on the Severn last Saturday was also responsible for the cancellation of the Carnegle Cup race between Princeton Cornell, and Yale, it deprived Tom Bolles of a valuable yardstick with which to judge the-relative merits of this year's Ithacan crew. Notoriously late starters, and in addition riddled by sickness this year, the Cornell crew has so far this spring rowed two losing races, one to Navy, which last week chased Captain Sherm Gray's boat across the finish line, and one to Syracuse, victor over Tech last...
...Varsity and Junior Varsity, together with two spares from the thirds, left Boston last night on the midnight and will have an opportunity to work out twice on the Severn river today before paddling to the starting line in defense of the golden cup, won by the Crimson for the past three years...
...that all. Of all the British ports, only Liverpool and those on the Clyde and Severn-lying on the western side of Britain-are operating at anywhere near full efficiency. Edinburgh, Newcastle, Hull, London and Southampton, thanks primarily to U-boat concentrations and to a lesser extent to the Luftwaffe's awful flirtations, are decreasingly effective (in the order named). The ports, in short, are bottlenecks which reduce the effective use of the merchant fleet to the equivalent of about 5,000,000 tons...
...rain had become a downpour. The Presidential yacht Potomac was tied up at the Severn Basin; while midshipmen and officers snapped to attention, the Executive flag broke out from the foremast, the President was piped over the side. On the King George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George...