Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Conn., on the yacht-crowded Thames, Harvard and Yale had their annual race for two. As it had seemed she would, Yale won. Rowing a slow 30 strokes per minute, crossing the finish line six lengths ahead of Harvard, the men with blue tips on their oars did not pause to shake hands and take the Harvard men's shirts away from them, as is the custom, but kept rowing right on upstream and across to their boathouse and training quarters at Gales Ferry. When the Harvard oarsmen finally crossed the line they collapsed freely...
...two of those trailers, M. I. T. and Syracuse, and two of the supposed chief contenders, California and Cornell, were not even given a chance to trail. Instead, their shells sank and the 32 oarsmen were forced to dive into the rough-watered Hudson, to be picked up by Poughkeepsie police launches. And, as darkness annoyed the radio broadcasters, Junior Glendon's unbeaten Columbia crew shot first across the finish line, with Washington second...
...other spectators in flowered dresses and grey toppers, Reigh Count, winner of last year's Kentucky Derby, and of this year's Coronation stakes in England, ran eagerly and fast but only came in second in England's great and fashionable Ascot Derby. The winner by two lengths was Invershin, a powerful seven-year-old owned by British Sportsman Reid Walker. Owner Walker, not as surprised as he might have 'been, because Invershin won the same race last year, purred as he was given the winner's glinting gold cup: "I am more than delighted...
...next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes at the hands of swarthy, turbaned Suzanne Lenglen, most graceful of women tennis players, now a professional. Followed a Paris operation for appendicitis and the Wills tennis for a while was slowed. Now she again leads all women players...
...present the Post's circulation is half again as large as Liberty's, some three million copies to two. In "estimating" the future, the Liberty cousins showed the Post creeping hesitantly to about three millions while Liberty reached that figure in steady upward dashes. The Post's career after the memorable Christmas of 1934 was shown continuing vaguely off the side of the graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph...