Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson matmen were disappointed after dropping a heart-breaking one point match to the Tigers Saturday, but not a bit discouraged over their prospects for the year. They will rule a favorite over inexperienced Tufts today, and Coach Pat Johnson is counting on his grapplers to turn in improved performances now that they have had their first taste of competition...
Magic. At Corsica the French used a neat bit of pagan lore to warn off the Italians. As the Premier was being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...
...whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed Lou Ruppel, who resigned last month (TIME...
...frequently said that the chief hope of long-run social service work lies in education. Until recently Harvard's social service agency, Phillips Brooks House, made only limited use of this bit of knowledge. Last spring, however, several enterprising Freshmen began the formation of an "undergraduate faculty" whose purpose it was to tutor worthy, underprivileged graduates of high schools in Metropolitan Boston. Lately a system has been inaugurated to the effect that other worthy high school graduates can now be placed under student tutors. If this present increase in the P.B.H. "faculty" is any indication of the future of this...
Yale opened its season by trimming its Alumni, 38 to 28. Danny Endweiss's 124.97 points-first in the dive stands out as the best Eli achievement, while Captain John Good, Ed Gesner, and Paul Metcalf looked well, Sprinter Eric Perryman and backstroker Joe Burns were a bit disappointing...