Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner of the first 175-pound bout was Edward S. Babcox, Jr. '40 (Leverett) who successfully knocked William H. Sleeper '39 (Kirkland) out of his berth. The other 175-pound preliminary victory went to Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr. '40 of Winthrop, a candidate for the Varsity, who put Stephen V. N. Powelson '38, a Rabbit and formerly a CRIMSON editor, out of the running...
...heavy weights, four 175 men will fight it out for the title. Edward S. Babcox, Jr. '39 (Leverett) defeated David Emerson '38 of the Elephants for one position, with William H. Sleeper snagging another berth by downing Orrin J. Van Dyck '38. Stephen H. Powelson '38, a Rabbitt, overcame Carter H. White '38 (Eliot) to stay in the running, and Benjamin G. Ferris '40 of Winthrop toppled John N. Fulham '40 of Dunster...
...wings, where he has played on the team for the past two years. Weighing only 160 pounds, Austie is always in the thick of it. Fred Smith, a member of Princeton's rugby team of last spring, is on the other wing so far, fighting it out for the berth with Bob Cummings and Tom Gophart, who held the position a year...
Hawaii Calls (RKO Radio) is a vain effort to make 10-year-old Bobby Breen swap his mammy-singing mannerisms for the more suitable antics of a lifelike small boy. Its story outfits him with rags & tatters, a shoeshine box and a stowaway's berth to Honolulu. But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio...
...first man of America. In a paltry appeal to the women's vote, they have chosen to make Martha Washington half again as valuable as her worthy spouse. Thomas Jefferson, whose name rests on his plan for sending Black Fact Indians to Harvard, is given the coveted three-cent berth. And with grim irony Benjamin Franklin, who enjoyed the title of Post master General for North America, is now reduced almost to extinction; he will grace the half-cent issue...