Word: twickenham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRANTER Twickenham, England...
...first race pitted Coach Joe Brown's eight against Twickenham Rowing Club. The Twickenham men were heavy and well-trained; in fact, the Harvard contigent was outweighed in every race by 20 pounds a man and more. A solid stroke brought the local eight to victory by three and three-quarter lengths, referred to in polished circles as an "easy victory." Despite the lack of competition, Harvard won over the mile and five-sixteenths course--the "Henley distance"--in 7 minutes, 10 seconds, fastest time...
...trip to victory, Harvard defeated the Twickenham Rowing Club, Kent (Connecticut) School, and Washington and Lee High School of Arlington, Virginia on successive days, and the Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club on the morning of the final encounter...
...Mare, 83, famed myth-and-mystic British poet (The Listeners), novelist (Memoirs of a Midget) and short-story writer (Seaton's Aunt), whose intensely personal vision earned him membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child brought up on such...
More than 50,000 spectators were in the corrugated-iron stands at Twickenham, near London. As the first American to win a Rugby blue (i.e., to play in the varsity match) at Oxford since 1931,*Jones stood at attention with his teammates while the band played God Save the Queen. Oxford lost the game, 3 to 0, but Outlander Jones acquitted himself well (said the Manchester Guardian: "He gave as good as he got"). Relaxing afterward in a steaming tub, which he shared with a teammate-there were only two showers -Jones was pleased that Oxford, though honorably beaten...