Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schmidt camera is unique among astronomy telescope in giving sharp focus over a large area of the sky. Light enters the telescope through a correcting lens, travels onto a spherical concave mirror, and is reflected back onto the film which is also curved...
...prize is awarded each year to a Senior in the House by the staff to tutors and professors. Last year Robert M. Bunker '39 was the honored student. The tradition extends back to the founding of the House...
Captain Al Vande Weghe, intercollegiate back-stroke champion, is back, but it is likely that he will be shifted to the free-style events, being replaced in the back by Mark Follanzbee, a Sophomore from Mercersburg, and Scott Scammell, a veteran...
...aloofness. He was a part of the past and gloried in it and was content to have called a close to the chapter he had written in the book of affairs. The Herald man covering Lowell's birthday last night had said "He is living in retirement at his Back Bay home" and he might as well have stopped there; and the editor calling for a cut to go with the story had been handed an old picture dug from deep in the files. The remoteness of another day and another way of life...
Bill Merriam, Pennsylvania's veteran coach, figures that this team will be stronger in the back stroke and distance swims, a little better in the breast stroke and slightly weaker in the sprints and dive...