Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard picked up a run in the second when Godin walked with the bases loaded, and two more in the fourth on Godin's two-run double. The Crimson loaded the bases in the sixth and seventh but did not make a successful bid until the ninth, when the Columbia infield, which up to then had played errorless ball, faltered...
Harvard, rowing into a stiff headwind that held down all the times, was never ahead despite a strong sprint bid during the last half-mile of the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance. The Crimson's time was 7:42.4, almost five seconds slower than Princeton...
Once again, the varsity boat demonstrated such clear superiority over its rivals that it was never pressed. Bill Curwen negotiated the course at his usual unhurried 31 beat, despite the fact that MIT was making a desperate bid to stay in the running over the early part of the race...
Movable Airfield. But the real argument against the big carrier had sprung from the turbulent Navy-Air Force scramble over wartime missions. The United States was the Navy's bid for a chance at the Air Force's strategic bombing role. Flourishing figures from World War II, the Navy claimed that attack carriers were not only the best way of bringing air power to bear at sea; as a movable, hit-&-run base, the supercarrier would be able to launch a surprise attack with atom bombs against any target anywhere...
Aside from a slight case of indigestion incurred among the outfielders in the incurred among the outfielders in the heat of the midday jonquil sun, the Lampooners managed to stave off bid after determined bid...