Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went next to Durban's main railroad station, sat down on a bench marked in large white letters: "For Europeans Only." A policeman strode up, and demanded the violator's name. The man gave it: Manilal Gandhi; age, 58; occupation, editor of the Durban weekly Indian Opinion. The cop told him a summons would be issued. Gandhi went home to his farm outside Durban to wait...
Even with these losses, Munro has a good roster of last year's reserves. Dana Getchell was the strongest of last year's bench and will move up to the first string left inside, with Pete Baker, another of last year's substitute lettermen, fighting it out with sophomore Johnny Beer for the right inside position. Juan Rodriguez, another sophomore, will probably alternate with Ed Seaga in the center forward slot. Win Knowlton, captain of the '53 Yardling team, who didn't come out last year, looks promising at right wing...
Since then, Ed Price, who has held down almost every bench job in the shop, has boosted Solar Aircraft until it has 4,200 employees. Last week the company announced an $8,000.000 contract from Packard to make parts for J47 turbojets, was building a $1,700,000 second plant in Des Moines and working on a $1,000,000 expansion of its San Diego plant. In California, Solar will make an eye-opening new gas turbine engine which the company unveiled a fortnight ago. Its new "T-45" weighs only 165 Ibs., displaces but two cubic feet, and runs...
...During a time-out period late in the game, there was no one left to carry out the water bucket, so Benny did. Time came back in sooner than Benny expected, and he just had time to dash off the field on the opposite side from the Harvard bench...
Graduation has riddled the Harvard squad down the all-important middle, but a fair 1951 bench, plus a couple of remaining outstanding pitchers, can enable McInnis' team to attain a respectable standing in the ten-team Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League next spring. Harvard consistently holds its own in this as well as other strictly amateur sports, and has sent its small share of players into professional baseball...