Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain is a capable four event man who has improved with each performance this year. He will be one of the four Crimson entries in the famous "Inferno" race down Mount Washington this weekend...
...entries must be submitted to Varsity Track Manager George Caploe at the Track Room in Dillon Field House by 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Only shorts and sneakers are needed for non-track-team competitors, and the winner in each event will be awarded an appropriate prize. Starting times will be announced later...
...Lesson for Paris. While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
Moscow's contingent (from the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kirghizia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) got in some propaganda punches for Russia's brand of imperialism. Said the Armenian delegate: "My people were backward until we became a part of the U.S.S.R.; after this event our period of hardship ended forever." The Russian section had a formula for every problem: try Communism...
...rest of Britain's besoaked sports fans were either watching rugby games and greyhound races, or among the 500,000 who lined the dangerously high Thames for the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. No one expected any record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both sank in a memorable race in 1912), river officials were afraid that the soggy Thames banks might collapse, dumping the crowds in. But Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat...