Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bus Curwen's Sophomore-packed eight provided amost all the thrills on a windswept Charles yesterday afternoon when it came within inches of leading a fleet of five Varsity heavy and four 150-pound crews across rings down the curtain on the fall rowing season...
...five oarsmen selected last Thursday by Tom Belles and his cohorts to stroke the heavy crews are Jack Wilson, last year's varsity stroke, "Wag" Wagner, Bristol Hall, Buck Anderson, and Bus Curwen, stroke of the 1943 boat last season...
Strokes Jack Wilson and Bus Curwen will probably end up in a nip and tuck race for third, although either have a chance of finishing out in front...
...Chung's resourceful Physicist David Hsiung set up the only power plant within hundreds of miles by coaxing the engine of an old Studebaker bus to burn charcoal, a Diesel engine to run on walnut oil. The biology department began crossbreeding different varieties of Yunnan ducks to get a new, improved strain. While the college faculty was considering the best way to spread the Christian message in Hsichow (no missionary had ever worked there), a student quite independently set the ball rolling by converting two local schoolteachers. Hua Chung had no caps & gowns for its graduating class last July...
Last week, complete with ten singers, a conductor and assistant, two rehearsal pianists, a stage director and a driver, Impresario Wagner's operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed...