Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news, Eastern Air Lines' President Edward V. Rickenbacker, who had already made a rival offer to Colonial before the National deal, took heart. He announced that he would make a second try, since a group of Colonial stockholders had bucked the National merger on the grounds that Eastern's offer was better, because it would place a higher valuation on Colonial stock...
M.I.T. was the second-highest eastern college. Yale managed to draw 19, while Chicago took 15 of them. Other high-ranking schools were Cornell with 13 and Notre Dame with...
Clinching its unofficial title as the best team in New England, the varsity tennis team nevertheless dropped to third place in the Eastern intercollegiate Tennis League after its match Saturday at Dart-mouth. In the official E.I.T.L. match of six singles and three doubles, the Indians best the Crimson, 5 to 4, but lost, 9 to 6, in the regularly scheduled non-league contest...
...former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. ¶ The Navy crews (varsity, j.v. and freshmen), the Eastern sprint (2,000-meter) regatta; at Princeton, N.J. ¶ The California crew, an upset, over powerhouse Washington (by four lengths); in Oakland, Calif. ¶ Jockey Johnny Longden, race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park...
Grandfather Chambers, a Philadelphia newspaperman, had a different foible: every time he came to visit, he took the two little boys on his tours of the local bars. "By the time I was nine or ten," says Chambers, "my grandfather had dragged me through most of the saloons in eastern Long Island . . . Saloons, I early discovered, were singularly tranquil places...