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Navy is definitely favored over both the Quakers and the Crimson. The Middies have defeated Yale and Princeton easily, and turned in the almost unbelievable time of 8:27 last week in beating the 1951 intercollegiate champions Wisconsin over a mile and three-quarters on the Severn. Rusty Callow's rowers were aided by a stiff tailwind and tide...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Underdog Crimson Races Penn, Navy In Adams Cup Crew Regatta Today | 5/10/1952 | See Source »

...wheels grind erratically. One it turns out smooth, polished, sterling and lustrous. Another rough, crude, callow, and crass. It requires knowledge as for a skilled trade, the application needed for a profession, the devotion for a cause. It demands all of your intellectual, physical, and emotional reserves, but its victories are sweet. Sweetly, Roger Allan Moore National College Director Young Republican National Federation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICS AND POT-HOLES | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...best fits the company's youthful talents. Unlike the senior Sadler's Wells, whose virtuosity is in classic ballet, the juniors do better in comic and contemporary works. Compared with George Balanchine's brilliant new Swan Lake for the New York City Ballet, their version seemed callow indeed. Nutcracker was a disappointing series of divertissements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: British Ballet, Jr. | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...rocky and fogbound shore of colonial Mystic, the founding fathers constructed their college buildings, surrounded them by a high brick wall, and commenced to indoctrinate the callow youths of the area with a system of "sound moral principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closed College Preaches Proper Paternalism | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

Seventh--Every boy has a right to grow up, and the fathers and husbands she so admires were also at one time callow, simpering youths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten-Point Plan | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

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