Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jayvees also had the situation well in hand. At times the Big Red was overstroking them by 11 beats per minute, but the Crimson took an early lead and held...
Neither Crimson crew had much trouble registering this first Bolles-engineered Ithaca victory, despite the extensive lineup changes which took place last week. Art Rouner, stroking the varsity in ailing Bill Curwen's stead, rowed a typical Curwen race, keeping the stroke low all the way and only raising it to a 34 for the finishing sprint...
...miles, but high winds forced the proceedings into the sheltered Cayuga inlet, which is barely a mile and five-sixteenths long. Conditions were very good for the jayvee race, but the varsity ran into stiff headwinds in the last half mile, which accounts for the additional seconds it took them to row the distance...
Michigan State took first, overpowering defending champion Yale by 44 to 30 1/2 points. NYU, Seton Hall, Cornell, Penn State, and Harvard followed in that order. Twenty-five teams scored out of the 46 which entered the meet...
...young Negro was lynched in Irwington, Georgia during the night by a white mob which took him from a sheriff's house, part of which served as a jail. The 28-year-old-Negro, Calif Hill, Jr., was found badly beaten with bullet holes in the heart and neck, lying by a creak...