Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making a clean sweep of the quartet of races that closed the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship last week. Harvard won a second leg on the MacMillan Cup. Dwight Fullerton, of the Beverly Yacht Club and Dedham, Mass., took two of the races; F. Stanton Deland '36 of Marblehead and Boston, and Michael Cudahy of Beverly and Chicago, captured one each...
...Champion Burke's is Lithuanian (Bur-kowski). Champion Dutra's forbears were, with the Espinosas. among California's early Spanish settlers. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 230 Ib., Dutra is one of the game's hugest players. Abroad last year with the Ryder Cup team he was caricatured as King Kong...
...year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real name is William Day. never much...
...second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
Another indication of the longevity of crew men was given recently when all the members of this same 1914 crew that won the Grand Challenge Cup on the Thames that year held a reunion at the Newell Boathouse. Every one of the men who sat in the victorious boat was present at the reunion and took a trial spin on the Charles. In all but one of the cases the man had increased considerably in weight, but critics said they showed excellent form...