Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman and Combination boat, also favored by tide and wind, paddled over the two-mile course...
...morning a brisk northwest wind combined with the ebb tide to make very fast conditions. Paddling downstream for a mile and a half the first two eights changed shells, rowed on a few strokes and then returned to the boathouse...
...second start of the day found the two Crimson eights heading down the Thames with the wind and tide. Rowing in short stretches at the order of Coach Brown, the oarsmen drilled for some time on raising and lowering the stroke smoothly. Other faults revealed in the time trial were worked upon until the three mile mark was reached. At this point the shells came about and paddled at a moderate beat the return distance to the boathouse...
...Morgan's yacht the "Cosair", the Crimson oarsmen started out upon the final ten days of practice for the Yale races this morning with a two mile drill on the down-stream course. The Thames was moderately calm, ruffled on the return trip by a rising southwest wind...
...frail wind moved under dark skies, ruffling the water of Oyster Bay, L. I., and filling the sails of some six-metre boats owned by rich men. Slowly the little fleet beat toward a buoy close to a sandy bluff, rounded the buoy, sailed back to the Seawanhaka Club where at sunset a cannon went off. The two boats in the lead-the Lanai, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and the Saleema, owned by H. B. Plant-were picked to compete in the six-metre races to be held in European waters this summer...