Word: cinder
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Twenty-two out of the twenty-four times Harvard has gotten Dartmouth alone on a cinder track the Indians have yelled uncle. Reports from the north this year, though, have it that the Big Green team which will go against the Varsity today at 1:30 o'clock in the Stadium doesn't know what the word uncle means...
...Captain Kenny O'Donnell, who suggested the move, 85 Varsity candidates ran four laps, churning the firm cinder track into the general consistency of a newly-plowed Dust Bowl. The cindermen weren't unhappy, since they plan to move outdoors anyway, and Art Valpey positively beamed...
...youthful cinder of two or three billion years, the earth has a lot of ailments. And man, the principal sufferer, knows precious little about the earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves and other ills that plague the planet. Last week, in a new book, Causes of Catastrophe (Whittlesey; $3), Lewis Don Leet, professor of seismology at Harvard, summed up some old and new diagnoses...
...Ruby, scheduled to run the second leg tonight, provides perhaps the strongest wallop. Ruby, Wheeler and Thayer, by the way, all got their cinder schooling in Milton. Ruby was a star sprinter and quarter miler for the High School in 1944-45, the same year Thayer was cleaning up across town at the Academy. Wheeler set an Academy quarter mile record a couple of years earlier...
...projected field has been recently resurfaced with a cinder and gravel coating, and would be able to handle a maximum of 1250 cars, far more than any conceivable demand. Only disadvantage would be its distance from the Houses, which would be at least a quarter of a mile...