Word: berthing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battling O'Donnell for the wingback berth are two of the most colorful runners on the squad: Hal Moffle and Dave Warden. Both men have a deceptive, disjointed style that baffles enemy tacklers. Warden, a member of the 1947 Freshman team, won a spot on the Varsity by his performances in Saturday game-scrimmage this fall. Nick Athans is also expected to see action at wingback tomorrow against the Lions...
...common-or-garden Pullman, still standard equipment for overnight travel, the seasoned traveler knows that he will go to bed when the porter chooses to make up his berth-no sooner and not much later. He masters the special technique required for undressing in a Pullman berth: a brand of gymnastics which would do credit to a graduate student of yoga. He knows that the car's oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals...
Bright & breezy with friends, free & easy with all comers (except subordinates, on whom he makes inordinate working demands), Pearson has a personality which would be worth thousands of votes to any politician. But he has long been loth to leave the safe berth of civil service. The cabinet post assured Pearson of a pay boost, from $15,000 to $19,000 when he gets elected to Parliament. It also assured him of a pay cut, to $6,000 as a mere M.P., should the Liberals lose control of the government, or to zero should he be defeated...
Sleepless Night. Three weeks ago, when he set out for Evanston to compete for a berth on the Olympic team, he suddenly realized that he was on his own: "I wish I could have brought Shirley Ann along-she kind of organizes me." At the Great Lakes Training Station, where the athletes were quartered four to a room, all his roommates talked about was winning. The night before, he couldn't sleep a wink. Next day in the 100 meters,* he got a slow start and lost out to veteran 30-year-old Barney Ewell, who won in world...
Peter Fuller '46 took the first step toward a possible berth on the U.S. Olympic boxing team when he won the heavyweight division of the New England trials Monday night at the Boston Arena...