Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stroking Steadily. Six thousand spectators strolled down to the shady shores of Lake Carnegie last week at Princeton after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under...
...which he can look for support upon only one subject, namely finance. For help upon all others, he must look to his financial opponents. He must play a shifting, short-suited game, now depending upon one hand, now upon the other. Apart from the actual financial problem, observers can watch with interest, this spectacular straddling...
Announcement is made today that Harvard rowing has passed from the tutelage of one coach to that of another. The world of rowing will watch the development of the University eight during the next weeks with particular interest. Some may take the resignation of the former head coach as the final blow to an already mediocre rowing season. The more logical conclusion however, is that the change in regime being the very thing the crew most needed a Harvard eight will have once again more than a desperate chance of standing on equal terms with the most expert boats...
John Heath's chapter-brothers last week performed rites initiating, causa honoris, Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, who is now entitled to dangle upon his watch-chain the familiar golden watch-key graven with three stars and a pointing hand...
...greatest crowd ever handled by railroads in one day. In 1901 the Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites provided for the touring pilgrims. Auto-repair gangs will patrol the roads. First aid stations will minister to the stricken...