Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the Huskies at 1,200 meters, and was never headed thereafter. Rutgers faded badly in the closing minutes to finish seventh, and the M.I.T. eight, a considerably improved crew after trailing the Crimson in its first race of the season, moved up quickly at the end of the event to nose out Washington for second place...
...that the misconceptions of the Bellboys are uncommon. Some others will believe that the food-saving measures of the past term have been "entirely nullified by students purchasing in Square restaurants." The fact is that local restaurateurs have not noticed it, and in no event could food eaten outside set off much of the 1600 pounds of critical flour actually saved for each of four weeks last term. The strictly Lowell House complaint about food quality makes a hollow sound when the House Committee claims that discontent was "traceable directly to the forced food savings program." The House had long...
...show's opening was a social event. England's King and Queen spent an hour and a half looking it over, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to England Averell Harriman. They finally came to rest (for the newspaper cameras) in front of Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's deliquescent, infinitely detailed door entitled That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do. The King guffawed when his guide informed him that a Georgia O'Keeffe he was admiring was titled Pelvis with the Moon. Said Queen Elizabeth tactfully: modern U.S. artists exhibit tremendous vitality...
...taking no chances, held the hanging one day in November 1903 in a corridor of the Laramie County jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked a joke. Water trickled out of a tank; the trap was sprung...
...oarsmen left last Saturday by plane for the 2,000 meter event which will see Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Navy, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, University of California, University of British Columbia, and, of course, the University of Washington Participating. Of this listing the first seven all defeated the crimson shell at Annapolis last month, though previously the local boatmen out stroked Princeton and MIT on the Charles...