Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Join the Navy and see the world" became more than a slogan to 89 members of the University Unit, Naval Reserve Training Corps, this summer, when they went on the annual training cruise down the Atlantic coast to Cuba and back...
There are still seven lettermen back from the undefeated 1938 team, which fleshed up the season at the head of the New England League. Outstanding among these is Captain Howard Mendel, star of the team last year and second highest scorer in the League, who should be the sparkplug of the Crimson booters this fall...
...contest lasted for more than an hour, and during that time guard Ernie Sargeant and end Gene Lovett led a spirited regular defense which hurled back every B team offensive effort. The C and D teams then ended the day's activities by engaging in a short scrimmage session. There were no casualties Saturday, but Joel Ferris, Dick Pfister, and Loren MacKinney are still shelved with minor groin injuries...
...exploring Columbian sites in the Azores, the expedition plans to backtrack Columbus to Portugal and Spain, and thence back across the Atlantic again to Central America, ending about February 1, 1940. Professor Morison's group is resailing the routes of Columbus in order to make a definite estimate of the explorer as a seaman...
Some students, having the post-war reconstruction of the social order in the back of their minds, will think it best to concentrate in the social sciences. They reason that a man trained in the theory of government or in the history of socialism will be the Johnnie-on-the-spot. And if these students move into History or Government or Economics for no other reason than this, they will greatly delude themselves...