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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of Harvard players who became National champions, Coach Cowles considers William P. Dixon '24, Melville P. Baker '22, and Herbert N. Rawlins, Jr. '27 as exponents of wall, corner and drop shots. Relying on skill in placing shots and using accuracy rather than sheer speed these players worked up to the top in the national ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 1/9/1935 | See Source »

Combining, to a certain extent, the advantages of the two styles was Beekman Pool '32, who is generally considered to be the greatest squash player to come out of Harvard. Pool, the younger, combined his straight, hard-hitting front wall game with corner and drop shots to good advantage. Much like Pool in his style of play is the present intercollegiate champion, E. Rotan Sargent '36, to whom Cowles looks as the next National Champion. Sargent ran the present National champ. Neil Sullivan, to five games and is considered the most serious contender for his crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 1/9/1935 | See Source »

...suicides among its officers and enlisted men. During the long dull years of peace the suicide rate tends to climb higher & higher in the service until a war comes and soldiers stop killing themselves. Just before the Spanish-American War army suicides reached a record high, only to drop away to almost nothing during the fighting. The same trend was discernible before the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Suicides & War | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...skiing team, was the winner in the trial race of aspirants held yesterday over the new Tuckerman Ravine Trail on Mt. Washington. The trail, designed by Coach Charles N. Proctor, is two and one-half miles long, 40 feet wide, and at one place has a 25-degree drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN CARTER WINS SKI TEAM'S TRIAL RACE | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...race will take place over a mile and three quarters of the two and a half mile trail. The steepest single grade of the race is a twenty-five degree drop; the course averages a forty foot width. Base of operations will be the Mountaineering Club cabin on Mt. Washington and the race will begin at noon. From the placing at the finish of the race it is expected that the nucleus of the team will be selected by Coach Charles N. Proctor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiing Team Will Hold Race Over New Tuckerman Trail | 1/4/1935 | See Source »

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