Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needless of the Crimson Varsity's 19-day breather, the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League whirls on to the completion of its 1942 campaign. Not until May 9, when it meets Columbia on Soldiers Field, will the Harvard nine have another lick at Ivy circuit competition...
...military circuit is hard work, but scoop-nosed Comedian Hope thrives on it. One week he took the Military Police apart (a sure-fire routine for soldiers); next week, when he arrived at Camp Haan, the M.P.s threw him in the guardhouse. At Camp Roberts a distraught recruit whose girl in the Midwest had just returned his engagement ring asked Hope to say a word to her in his broadcast. Hope explained that that was against the FCC rules; but after the show he looked up the jilted soldier and put in a telephone call for him. With half...
Discovered at approximately ten minutes after nine by Billie Greney, night watchman of Lowell House the conflagration was extinguished by 9:25 o'clock. The cause is as yet undetermined, but evidence points to either a lighted cigarette butt, or, possibly to a short circuit. If it was the latter, the fire started at exactly ten of nine, since that was when Thomas's electric clock stopped...
...only the Yard's early strollers who could shout "Let it burn," since this second visit of the year by the local fire brigade came well before 9 o'clock. A short circuit in a fuse box had caused only a small blaze, but the smoke, which was heavy enough to fill the basement, prompted a janitor to call out the fire fighters...
Backing up these assertions with facts and figures, the analysis points out that the Crimson hit .214 last year, lowest in the circuit, and scored only 43 runs in 12 contests, less than four tallies per game. Captain Lou Clay and infielder Bart Harvey are the only two returning players to average .250 at the plate last season...