Word: dual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the association compete weekly in dual meets, each team represented by three crews. In addition to these dual meets, the association will sponsor eight regattas this spring, the first of which will be the annual George Owen Trophy Regatta in the Charles River Basin, sponsored by the Harvard Yacht Club...
...acquaintances and activities spread, S. K. began to cultivate a dual personality. "After all," he says, "I had none of the assets of a Mata Hari. So I played the role of a man who understands nothing at all. . . . My incredible ignorance provoked people-Italians as well as Germans-into giving me detailed explanations of matters I wanted to know. ... To carry this off I had to plan every conversation in the greatest detail, word for word, even to facial expressions." For S. K. did not underestimate his task. It was: to out-Gestapo the Gestapo, already very active...
Having scored the greatest number of points in dual intercollegiate competition during the past swimming season, Sophomore Johnny Eusden of Newton and Dunster House was presented the E. B. Wyman Trophy at the annual dinner of the Varsity squad held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
This team is the apex of 25 years of head-coaching by Yale's great Natatutor Robert John Herman Kiphuth, whose charges in all that time have lost but three intercollegiate championship matches and nine dual meets. Swore Michigan's Coach Matt Mann: "Yale's is the greatest swimming team that has ever been gathered together. It's a truly great combination and much stronger than any of our previous Olympic teams...
...factories. Startled Italian defenders took ten minutes to man their anti-aircraft guns and shore batteries, were still firing into the sky (thinking they were being bombed) when the attacking ships retired. Not a plane was lost, not a rating injured, the British reported, in an action with a dual purpose: 1) to cripple Axis bases from which attacks can be launched on British convoys; 2) to smash one spearhead of a momentarily expected Axis thrust toward Suez and the oil fields of the Caucasus and Iraq...