Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apple-cheeked youth 40 years ago, immaculate Thomas Duff Pattullo, now Premier of British Columbia, visited the hell-roaring gold-rush town of Dawson, Yukon as secretary to the Canadian Government's first. Yukon Commission. Tough miners and hot-spot sirens goggled at his white trousers, the first ever seen so far north. From that moment romantic Yukon wove a spell around...
Premier Pattullo. still immaculate but with a bigger girth, announced exultantly last week that British Columbia had closed a deal with the Dominion Government to take over Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331 sq. mi. will become, next to Quebec, the largest in Canada, more than ten times as big as New York State. From maps of Canada will disappear the colorful Yukon Territory, made famous by the discovery of gold in 1896 and the hairy-chested poems of Robert William Service...
...Crimson's Varsity and Jayvee crew have records of victories over Princeton, Tech and Rutgers, Columbia comes with a loss to Yale behind it, and a narrow victory over a very poor Pennsylvania crew...
Another Harvard sweep on the Charles River is expected this afternoon when four Crimson eights take the water against Technology and Columbia...
Like last week, the weakest link in the Harvard chain comes in the 150 pound class, where Bert Haines' first crew tackles a Tech boat it edged last week, a Columbia boat that beat Yale at the same time in New York...