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The indoor machines at Weld will also be available to non-crewmen who wish to acquire major athletic conditioning program credits and will count the same as House football, basketball, track, soccer, swimming, and calisthenics. Bert Haines, head crew coach, will supervise the rowing program.
Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent...
Students occasionally manage it by trading some of their rice allowance with people who would rather eat than drink. In time they thus acquire enough beer to help them forget Japanese reality for a few hours.
Since three brave young pioneers ventured 12,000 miles from home to enroll at Monson (Mass.) Academy in 1847, some 10,000 Chinese students have journeyed eastward to acquire a U.S. education. The pilgrimage has been interrupted by war, but 1,700 war-stranded students remain in the U.S. Primarily...
They were not always pets. They were born in days of desperation, when the U.S. needed many more carriers than it could hope to acquire in years if it stuck exclusively to its big first-line craft. The Navy was already converting oilers and C-3 cargo hulls into small...