Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Planes, Please. Mahon had hardly completed his mild, deliberate introduction to next year's blueprint for defense when Georgia's crusty old Carl Vinson took the floor. A smart, longtime supporter of a big Navy who had come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within...
...addition to the Faculty Big Names associated with the History and Lit department, such as F. O. Matthiessen, who will be absent next year but will return in the fall of 1950, there is a group of tuors who are specialists in each of the fields, and every concentrator gets regular tutorial guidance from the time he enters, unless his grades fall below the minimum Group IV rating...
...varsity race, the Crimson will definitely be the favorite. In the slides will be two lettermen and six men from last year's exceptional freshman boat. This combination seems a sure bet to beat the Engineers, whose laboratory hours take a big cut out of practice time...
...outcome of the other two races is less certain, although again Harvard holds the big advantage of ample practice behind it. Entered in the jayvee race is the crew stroked by Jerry Wells, a boat which hasn't been far behind the Jack Smith-stroked varsity in practice sprints this spring...
...Rugby Club plays the first round of the 1949 Big Three Championship today and it promises to be a good one. Harvard and Princeton have already played to a 0-0 tie down in Bermuda. Kickoff time in the feature attraction is 3 p.m. and the locale is Soldiers Field...