Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right to race Yale at stake, the Sophomores rallied sharply and with half a mile to go raised the count to the neighborhood of 34 and buckled grimly to the task of making up the deficit. And they nearly succeeded in doing it, for the prow of the Senior shell cut the line barely 8 feet in front--a rather tight finish to say the least. Sophomore B came along a quarter length astern...
...know, edges eternity". Then, in an article written just before an operation which proved fatal to him, he tells of the various ways in which he had previously met death:--by falling down an elevator shaft, from the effects of a mine explosion, from a shell-wound, from anaesthetic, and from loss of blood. But every time the return to life proved more painful to him than the leaving of it. At last he was able to look forward to real death with composure, and was frankly unable to see what the public could find that was interesting...
There was but a short stretch remaining in which to decide the matter. Both crews seemed to realize this at the same time for both strokes called on their men for a last effort and both shells answered with an identical increase in speed. Thayer, setting the pace for the Unions, now made a final effort to break the dead-lock. The stroke in the graduate shell was already in the neighborhood of 34, but it was raised to 36 and inch by inch the older men drew ahead...
...pound race. Getting off to a rather poor start, the Crimson crew got together in quick time and settled down to a high but steady stroke. Fast as was the pace set by French, it was out-done by the M. I. T. shell which registered close to 42 for the first minute. Honors were even for the first few hundred yards with Harvard rowing easily beside their strong opponent, but at the quarter the superior power of the Crimson oarsmen began to tell and Tech commenced to drop steadily behind...
...shift in the boating of the two University crews, announced yesterday by Coach Muller, involves the promotion of three men from Crew B to berths in the first eight and a corresponding change of three men from the University to the Junior shell...