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Lowell finished nearly a length behind in 7:11, a deck length in front of Kirkland, as Leverett trailed in fourth place. In the finals of the second crew races another Eliot crew beat Winthrop by a length. Kirkland and Dunster were in third and fourth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Boat Wins Agassiz Cup With Bellboys Second | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

...jump at the start in the feature brush and hung on to their lead, there was a hot tussle for second. At one point more than a length behind, the Bellboys but on the pressure in the last few hundred yards to nip the Deacons by a deck length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Boat Wins Agassiz Cup With Bellboys Second | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

...small basin, fenced off from the harbor by the breakwater. Within the basin lay a cluster of boats, launched even earlier than his own. On one a group of riggers was working; the mast had been set in from a high derrick on the dock and now one deck-hand was perched in the spreaders trying to un foul a tangle of lines, looking like a bird in a wintry tree. Soon his won craft--that little white creature nestling in the cradle on the shore--would slip down the rails that led into the water and slide over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

...submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...three-quarters did Captain Sherm Gray's cocky eight forge ahead, rowing two points higher than the Engineers. It took the final sprint to the finish to show up the hidden power of the Crimson. Gaining four feet at each stroke the Freshman managed to jump ahead with a deck-length of open water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR EIGHTS WIN IN REGATTA OVER RUTGERS AND TECH | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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