Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crew coach Tom Bolles has all available fingers crossed today lost the malady which deprived the two first crews of three oarsmen yesterday turns out to be an epidemic of measles. A change in diagnosis from the German to the regular variety of the spots has already counted Varsity stroke Thorvald Ross out of the regatta on the Severn next Saturday...
...subbing for Rose at stroke, kept the beat low for the whole distance. Princeton held an early edge over the Crimson shell and was ahead for the first quarter mile, only to fall into third place as Cornell's eight bit off a sizeable advantage beyond the Harvard Bridge...
...finishing in an echelon--left with a single length separating first and last shells, the J.V. race supplied the finish-line audience on the West Boston Bridge with a dramatic close. Princeton held a low, easy stroke and the lead for the whole distance to win in 10:1.6, while the Crimson pulled a neck-and-neck contest out for a final ten-feet margin...
Further hampered by the loss of stroke Torby Ross, who was laid low by German Measles, the Varsity will at least be competing under favorable weather conditions, promised as fair and cool with gentle, variable winds. The afternoon's competition will begin at 4:45 o'clock when Bert Haines' first and second shells of 150 pounders face M.I.T. and Tabor Academy on a 1 5-16 mile course. At 5:10 o'clock the Crimson, Cornell, M.I.T., and Princeton Jayvees will christen the 1 3/4 mile course...
...great marble-colonnaded, square chamber was filled with Easter Monday tourists. At the stroke of noon, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices seated themselves in their high-backed, black leather chairs behind the long mahogany bench...