Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cavanagh started playing in the Pee Wee program in Cranston, R.I., and played on an All-State, All-New England team with DeMichele and his younger brother Dave (who is now on the freshman team) his senior year. He was "supposed" to go to Brown, he says, but he decided he wanted to come to Harvard so he took a year at Andover...
...Harvard basketball team has not had a great week. Wednesday night, they lost to Navy, 70-58. Thursday afternoon, just before practice, two year letterman Barth Royer revealed that doctors had forbidden him to play for the rest of the season. And tonight, the Crimson faces one of New England's better small college teams, Springfield, in the second contest of a four-game road trip...
Springfield's varsity squad is a traditional small-college basketball power in New England, and its freshman squad should provide a tough first test for the Crimson hoopsters...
...World War I, a New England physics professor, Robert Goddard, had become interested in the use of rockets for studying meteorology. In 1919, he published a mathematical analysis of a meteorological rocket and pointed out that the same principle could be used to carry a charge of flash powder to the moon, where its ignition would be visible from earth. In 1926, he launched the world's first successful liquid-fuel rocket. It rose...
...they demonstrated again in last year's Six-Day War, the Israelis are tough, wily soldiers. Their ancestors weren't bad either. In a new book called Great Battles of Biblical History (published in England by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.), retired British General Sir Richard Gale analyzes scriptural warfare from Abraham to the Maccabees. Gale suggests that, more often than not, the Hebrew military commanders anticipated many of the tactics employed by later and more celebrated generals...