Word: severn
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Instead, Harvard found a new entree of crabs popping out of the choppy water of the Severn River and grabbing onto its blades. In the end, however, the varsity eight prevailed, rowing home with the Adams Cup and maintaining its "tops in the East" status as it goes into next week's Eastern Sprints...
Last year's varsity boat did encounter some nautical competition from the midshipmen of Annapolis, in the form of a man overboard loss on the Severn River and a good scare from Navy at the Sprints. But by and large John Higginson's first boat easily motored through its opposition with a crew of sophomores and juniors...
Along with virtue, miracles were required, and the most celebrated visitors in Rome for the canonization were two persons whose cures, attributed to the heavenly intercession of Mother Seton, had been decreed miracles. One was Mrs. Ann O'Neill Hooe, 27, of Severn, Md., who recovered from childhood leukemia 23 years ago. The other was Florida's Carl Kalin, 73, a convert from Lutheranism only last year, who was cured of a rare brain disease in 1963. The third case involved a nun, since deceased, who had recovered from cancer of the pancreas...
ANNAPOLIS, MD.--The previously undefeated Harvard lightweight crew fell victim to the treacherous waters of the Severn River here Saturday and lost to Navy for the first time in the 18-year history of the Haines Cup in what was one of the most bizarre races in recent years...
Friday afternoon the Severn was calm in the rain for the Crimson's pre-race workout, but by Saturday morning a gale-like tailwind had kicked up the Severn's waters into a ferocious chop with whitecaps...