Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...
Three days earlier, two crews who habitually snub Poughkeepsie had their own closed-shop regatta on Connecticut's Thames River. The victor, for the ninth time in a row: Harvard over Yale, by a boat length and a half...
Governor Gruening (pronounced greening) was born (1887) in New York City. His father, Dr. Emil Gruening, a famous physician, wanted his only son to be a doctor. At Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and later at Harvard, Ernest Gruening had agreed wholeheartedly. But during three years at Harvard Medical School he developed an overwhelming curiosity about social and political developments and an itch to become a newspaperman...
...There is no escape in Connecticut. Last week state police began clocking motorists with a radar device which automatically (and infallibly) recorded the speed of every passing automobile, could be concealed behind a bush...
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