Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conn., June 9--Encouraged by last Saturday's very favorable time trial, the Varsity crew has been showing the most promising pre-race form since the days of Gerry Cassedy and his mates, and enthusiasm over the possibility of a win over the Elis for the first time in three years was running high here to-night...
Reports from the Gales Ferry camp of the Elis across the river indicate that the Crimson eight will be facing one of the weakest Blue combinations in several years, and Harvard's managers tonight timed the opponents for an upstream time trial in 21 minutes 54 seconds...
...that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis J. Cadek, a hardboiled, barrel-bellied police captain who had been 30 years on the Cleveland force. Other property and bank accounts under various names were linked to Captain Cadek, who was soon indicted and brought to trial to explain how he came by a fortune...
...trial a number of Cleveland's ex-bootleggers showed up to give the jury their idea of the money's source. During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic bribes. So well understood was Captain Cadek's policy that on one occasion the 'leggers combined to tender the "Skipper" a pig-roast and clambake, at which they presented him with two beer kegs so stuffed with currency that it had to be stamped down before Captain Cadek could...
With its last row in Cambridge for the 1936 season over yesterday, the Varsity eight will rest today and take up the sweeps again at Red Top tomorrow night for a time trial. The Freshman and Combination crews will not leave Cambridge until Sunday...