Word: concord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Publisher Woods Peters of the Concord, Calif. Transcript (circ. 1,134): "The guy is nuts. ... No matter what you do, you cannot please everyone. Therefore, we don't try to please anyone. . . . When people need kicking in the pants, they...
...conjunction with similar groups at such nearby colleges as Radcliffe, Simmons, and M.I.T., the society has conducted canoe, hiking, bicycle, and horseback trips to many spots of interest, including Ipswich Beach, the Concord River, and the Blue Hills...
...near future the members of the club will journey to Manchester's famous singing beach, so called because its sand is so tightly packed that it sings when one walks on it. Also on the agenda are a Waback Trail trip and another to the Concord River, this one under the direction of Radcliffe hikers...
Pete Harwood, New England A.A.U. pole-vault title holder, entered the V-12 and Eliot House from Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. His father, a 1920 Harvard man and U.S. Olympic pole-vaulter, started Pete vaulting with an old birch pole in the fifth grade at Concord, Mass. By the time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
...fully within sight of a past American battleground. No tourist may now climb to the top of Bunker Hill's grey shaft: he might see too much going on in the Charlestown Navy Yard below. Once it required a poet's fancy to make the shots at Concord's rude bridge heard round the world. Now, ten miles away, ammunition is being fashioned that will literally be heard the world around...