Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers also won the freshman heavy race, with Harvard second and Tech last. In the J.V. race, the Crimson won easily over Princeton, but Tech never finished after catching a crab in the final sprint. Three Crimson crews swept the 150 regatta held prior to the heavy races, beating Tech and Tabor Academy...
...Crimson third varsity crew beat American International College by several seconds in a mile race on the Charles River. The distance was shortened because of the choppy conditions due to high winds. Both crews experienced a great deal of difficulty in the rough water. American International pulled a crab about the midway mark of the race but recovered quickly...
...land." But the nearest islands at that point were the Azores, 600 miles to the north. A few days later the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta ran into an oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best sailors went ahead to sight land first." Actually, the lonely little formation had not yet reached mid-Atlantic: boatswain birds wander hundreds of miles from land and the seaweed was the Sargasso...
Bubbles & Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...Members of Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen, who a week earlier had balked at unloading inbound cargoes of Russian furs and crab meat, refused to touch 2,000 cases of Polish hams aboard two American freighters at New York docks...