Word: brews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haunted by the spectre of four straight defeats by Dartmouth's Captain Doug Brew, Pete Reider took his revenge spectacularly yesterday afternoon, as he whipped Brew and smashed all previous records for the Franklin Park Course. The varsity cross country won the meet and their eighteenth consecutive victory by the lopsided score...
Actually, the Green's varsity is not totally inept. It has an outstanding runner in Captain Doug Brew, the heptagonal half-mile champion. Brew set a Dartmouth course record in beating varsity ace Pete Reider last year, but he has been hampered by an ankle injury this year. His second place finish against Brown last week, however, indicates that he will probably be at top strength for his annual duel with the Crimson's Reider...
That rivalry should provide the meet's one interest, for behind Brew, the Indians have nothing comparable to the varsity's strong nine-man depth...
...tennis courts and golf courses. The city's Negro laborers, in no hurry to get back to their squalid quarters, repaired to the Mai-Mai, a huge, government-run beer hall that serves the only alcoholic drink legally available to South Africa's blacks, a weak brew officially known as Kaffirbeer (which Negroes often spike...
Bilious blue bloods and asthmatic aristocrats have sipped the strong waters of La Bourboule for centuries. The heady brew burbling up from radioactive springs around the French spa is spiced with arsenic and bicarbonate of soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from...