Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unless they plugged for social-welfare legislation the Republican Party was doomed. Last week in the U.S. Senate, Robert Taft gave a vigorous demonstration of what he was preaching. Batting down the opposition of Democrats and Republicans alike, Ohio's Taft, almost singlehanded, hammered through a $300 million bill to help the nation's schoolchildren...
Golf captain Bill Rickenbacker scored a 71 in the New England Intercollegiates yesterday to tie for low man among 164 entries. He thereby became the only varsity player who will compete in the individual championships this afternoon...
Harvard came in 19 strokes behind BC. The Crimson fielded six men and counted the four best scores, as follows: Bill Rickenbacker 71, Bob Matson 78, Dick Q'Keeffe 79, and Herb Mee and Hugh Nawn...
...leap away from the stake boats at 40 strokes a minute for the first few hundred yards, and then settle into a longer, lower pace for the long pull through the middle of the race. Here the first variation in strategy appears, as the different strokes set the beat. Bill Curwen, for instance, never takes more than 10 sprinting strokes at the start, and then drops the beat all the way down to 31 for the rest of the race...
...stroke does not go up or down on the basis of relative position, because a crew rows against the clock until the final half-mile. Bill Curwen, for instance, would never vary more than one stroke from his usual 31 unless his rivals were hull down over the horizon. Months of experimenting have proved that a Harvard crew works best at that rate...