Word: berthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building Maryland's great football teams and physical plant (e.g., a $375,000 hen house for poultry students, the $1,000,000 Byrd Stadium), Booster Byrd did little for the U. of M.'s reputation as an incubator of academic learning. Most scholars gave Maryland a wide berth, and of last year's 2,045 graduates, only 373 received degrees in the arts and sciences...
...town. The Navy was agreeable, and on June 26 Junior was welcomed to Chicago. This week, if weather and Lake Michigan permit, Junior will be hauled ashore in a momentous engineering operation and lugged across South Lake Shore Drive (traffic will be halted for twelve hours) to her final berth at the museum...
Steerage Class. In Milwaukee, after Mrs. Fannie Riley found him sleeping in a trunk in her attic and called police, Army Sergeant John J. Yess, unable to account for either the position or the imposition, complained: "This ship has the smallest berth I ever slept...
...Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes of cursing, screaming and collapsing furniture...
Gottlieb qualified for the traveling squad by beating Mann. Rauh and Alex Haegler did not compete for the trip berth...