Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class, nearly to a man, imported "the-girl-from-back-home." Of these a vast majority were brunettes with only a few blondes and a lonely red-haired girl. For 50 per cent of the class it was their first college prom...
...brilliant past means anything, Jim Lightbody will be a fitting successor to Haydock. Son of an Olympic runner, Lightbody broke his back in high school and seemed shut out of track for life. As a Freshman he had already overcome this handicap when he made the Oxford-Cambridge meet; for two years now he has been unbeatable over the 440 and 880 distances...
...first team, and Lowell's twirler Dick Story is rated as the reserve pitcher, giving the Bellboys a fourth man in the selection, Charley Lutz of Adams is by far and away the outstanding pitcher in the League. The slim Junior, who played on his Freshman team two seasons back, has been charged with but one defeat this year and is chiefly responsible for keeping the Gold Coasters in the championship running...
...more than two minutes elapsed before the Union staff regained composure and Supervisor J. Murray lost no time in summoning attendant Monty Irwin, who opened all the windows and doors and let the bird find his way back to freedom...
...considered to be one of the five greatest arrangements ever written and Henderson himself says that he never expects to write another sax chorus such as is contained in this record. He claims that he wrote the equally famous "Stardust" arrangement for Goodman while lying flat on his back from an automobile accident and that Goodman told him to go get cracked up again, in order to get more of the same...