Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, 32 finalists began to file into Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, from there went on to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton for more tests. For two weeks they were jolted, spun, vibrated, crushed, chilled and roasted in physical and psychological tests simulating the stresses of space flight. Each man was set to hiking on a treadmill that was elevated one degree per minute, and to pedaling increasing amounts of weight on a bikelike device. Each was whirled for 3½ minutes in a centrifuge speeding at various angles that simulated pressures...
...hitch in the Marines he attended the University of Hawaii, got an Army commission, transferred to the Air Force. Rolled up 2,300 flying hours (1,400 in jets), graduated Air Force Institute of Technology, '56 (aeronautical engineering), was test pilot for experimental fighters at Edwards Air Force Base...
Filling in the stern four behind the stroke will be veterans Jim McClenan and Tory Everett along with sophomore Ken Gregg. These men provide a strong base for blending the rest of the crew. The oarsmen in the bow four are still undergoing change as Love seeks to find a crew which has both the necessary grace and power behind...
...letting a slow bounder go right between his feet to Kasarjian's stopping to argue with the umpire while he still had the ball, allowing a Brandeis baserunner to score. Because of the wildness of the Brandeis pitching, the varsity had a chance to show off some fast base running, although Boulris was picked off twice...
...game was Ed Wadsworth who managed to keep going despite a sore finger that almost made his pitching go out of control. Nevertheless, he allowed only five hits in the whole game and kept Walker, Brandeis' strongest hitter, to just two hits. Both teams tried to get on base by bunting, but most of the efforts resulted in fouls or outs, except for Wadsworth's squeeze which brought in the varsity's last...