Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norris won the 1500-meter freestyle in the opening event of the ninth annual Easter "Intercollegiate swimming championship at Princeton last night while Yale's Emil Estoclet and John Moore finished second and third to put the Blue ahead 7 to 5 after the first day of competition...
...past ten years, a slim, long-faced cockney girl with big blue eyes and a big blue voice has been the queen of England's popular singers. By last week, Vera Lynn's voice was being heard across the U.S. - and if she wasn't yet the queen of U.S. singers, she was at least high on the list of ladies in waiting...
...devotions and heroisms of children and the world of intense phenomena in which children live. His description of Miss Bobbit, in Children on Their Birthdays, may not be for everybody, but it is a fair example of good Capote: "By now it was almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair...
...Kittredge took a puck at the blue line, passed to Bob DiBlasio, took his pass back, and set up the goal for DiBlasio with a goal mouth pass...
Otherwise, the locals were completely outclassed by Coach Bob Kiphuth's masterful tutees. There were no scintillating times, probably because the Blue-clad swimmers never had to burn up the pool to win. Even after the first race, nobody honestly thought Harvard would give the Elis much of a fight. Yale has a collection of outstanding swimmers and the Crimson did as well as it was expected to against them...