Word: cayuga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell, a university of great physical beauty, squats on a hill-above Cayuga's waters--in the Finger lakes region of New York State. It has a first class arts and sciences school but it takes much more pride in schools such as the three million dollar Statler School of Hotel Management, and its Schools of Industrial Relations, Home Economics, and Nutrition. The University has a Medical School in New York City...
...hours last week, a tight feeling of crisis hung over Esquimalt naval base on Vancouver Island. Wives and sweethearts gathered for tearful farewells as the destroyers Cayuga, Athabaskan and Sioux slipped their moorings and headed into the straits bound for Pearl Harbor. The Canadian government had put them at the disposal of General Douglas MacArthur for use in the Korean...
Cornell's sudden success last Saturday follows a customary pattern. The Big Red oarsmen get a late start each year because Lake Cayuga doesn't usually become navigable until well into April. Hence the Ithacans look bad in their first races. By the time they row against Harvard, a contest for which they are always "up," they are usually in top form. This year, especially, they seem to be improving fast...
...Continuing bad weather hampered search craft. But in the afternoon of the second day, the Canadian fishing ship Cape Perry sighted two of the men signaling from the shore, and in a short time it had picked up ten. Late the same day, a detail from the Canadian destroyer Cayuga reached Trippodi, who was by now delirious, suffering from exhaustion, shock and frostbitten feet. In all, twelve were rescued...