Word: cartful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest upset apple-cart from the Harvard point of view was John Bonner's surprising win in the discus, the last event which decided the meet. Big Jack, who had never topped 142 feet in competition before, came through in fine style as he heaved the platter a nifty 153 feet, five inches, to take the event, and clinch the laurels for the team. His showing was the best example all afternoon of Jaakko's pre-meet prediction and generalization that "the harder the competition, the harder they will fight...
Hopes are high for new records and sparkling performances galore when the cream of the Eastern League crop meets in the Stadium tomorrow for the annual Heptagonal games. Although it was feared that accelerated schedules would upset the apple-cart, all seven of the Ivy league squads will appear, but Dartmouth will send only what call a "token" team...
When "Tink" moves back to his native Boston, vans will cart away his horrific stuffed heads of lions, tigers, leopards-trophies of campaigns he won while hunting in Burma, India, Africa. A rich man, "Tink" always paid the election bills, never deigned to campaign, let his friends do the electioneering. But no more. "Tink" says that old age prompts him to retire after 28 years, admits another factor is a Congressional reapportionment in his Massachusetts district breaking up his solid block of adherents in both parties...
...smaller roads and cart tracks (the main roads were strictly military) there was an endless train of automobiles, rattling bullock carts, and two-horse tongas, normally used for Madras' internal traffic - all piled Okie-like with chattels. Behind the carts were tied goats, cows and water buffaloes, and behind them walked scantily clad, long-haired Telegus and Tamils, male and female alike bearing huge bundles. The exodees stopped here & there at free food dumps along the dusty roads...
...period and no time for tutorial work. They have not given us the time for tutorial in the summer--that is the crux of the matter. Instead, they have shaped something like a round wheel with a slice lopped off of one side, and asked us to make the cart go even faster than ever before...