Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other schools, entered in the races are Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, MIT, Brown Williams, Penn, Cornell, Army, Navy and Coast Guard. On the basis of last week's showing at New London, Yale and Brown will be the teams the Crimson must beat...
...Hanami (flower viewing). The Japanese left their wretched, paper-thin houses and their half-ruined factories; chattering with delight, they roamed across the broad lawns of their public gardens to view the flowers of spring. City folk flocked to the beaches. Up & down the jagged, black-sanded coast, fishermen pushed off their squat wooden boats. Farmers tirelessly slushed through their rice fields as they had always done...
...inexorably, the armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
...touring season in 1944, when Swalin rounded up his musicians (mostly from the North) and a tiny $2,000 subsidy from the state, he has played hundreds of concerts for barefoot kids and grateful adults, in churches, schoolhouses and ballparks. Once he even shipped his "Little Symphony" aboard a Coast Guard cutter to play for the isolated people living on sandy Cape Hatteras. This year he hopes to cover 7,000 miles. To Swalin, now 48, "good music can uplift and ennoble people, and help them to better themselves...
...early 1948, Alleghany had sold more than $17 million of its railroad holdings, because Young was bearish on their earnings' future. Among the sales: Alleghany's entire common-stock interest in Seaboard Air Line Railroad and most of its holdings in Central of Georgia and Florida East Coast Railway Co. (all roads where Young could not get control). Alleghany also plans to sell its holdings of 225,000 shares of Rock Island common stock, and get out of that road...