Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered...