Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 44 minutes she broke the surface again. Harry Truman had something to show for his temerity: a membership in the Royal Order of Deep Dunkers...
...Zimmerli, another member of the Swiss rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told me in German she wanted...
Tired Like a Dog. "Harvey is a nice guy too. He gave me his second last cigaret. ... He was walking between two of my men, tied to the rope. Suddenly beneath his feet the snow and ice had vanished, a deep crevasse was open. We got him up, just like that, in a moment. I was surprised to see that he still had my ice ax firmly in his hand. ... It is rare that a greenhorn has such presence of mind. I'm tired like...
From the beginning, its impresario has been Stanley Sumner, who serves as the manager and part owner (with Lindsey Hooper) of the incorporated establishment. Sumner initially had two obstacles to overcome--the deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring...
...even the gamest team can be ground down, and as the Blue backfield promenaded all over the field Saturday, many were the grumbles from deep inside the raccoon coats. This was Yale, and early-season wins over provincial seminaries were merely so many statistics cluttering up the record. In other years, this unyielding Sophomorism would have been as much a part of the proceedings as Handsome Dan. But this year it must not be allowed to cloud the fact that a green team, playing together for the first time, rose from the nether corners of the Ivy League doormat, where...