Word: collard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ends. Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight who is used to fill out the classic triangle...
Meanwhile, at BU, Coach Mel Collard has no outstanding players but he does have a balanced team which has been bolstered by a host of sophomores up from last year's undefeated freshman squad...
...consistently brings a crack team to Soldiers Field. Last year they trimmed the Crimson twice with Dick Snow, veteran of the visitors' mound staff who will oppose Harvard this afternoon, turning in a 2 to 1 teninning win. In fact, Coach Mel Collard has named practically an all-veteran lineup. Only outfielders Walt Anderson and George Boston, erstwhile Crimson athlete, are newcomers. Boston bat's in the cleanup slot...
...Collard had it planned, on paper. There would be a broad-gauge line (he preferred the wider roadbed for safety at high speed) from London to Paris. The underchannel bore would be 24 miles long, between Dover and Calais. Electric locomotives doing 92 m.p.h. would pull trains carrying 508 passengers. The trip would take two hours, 45 minutes. The fare would be ?2 ($8). There would be 22 trains daily. The cost would be ?190 million. Annual gross receipts would be ?35 million; net profit, ?12 million. That would be 6.3% on the investment...
...Collard was so enthusiastic that in 1918 he was called as a witness by the Government's Channel Tunnel Committee. They wet-blanketed the idea but did not daunt Collard...