Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman schedule for next season is not definitely settled, but chances are that the oarsmen will have some of their races away from Cambridge. Last year they had no trips except for the jaunt down to Red Top, and this year they may accompany the Varsity to race Pennsylvania and Navy at Philadelphia...
There will be no "frozen" associate professors (men with permanency but no chance of further promotion) at Yale except in "exceptional cases," President Seymour announced...
Yesterday the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports announced an eight game Varsity football schedule for the 1941 campaign which includes contests with all Ivy League teams except Columbia, and additional bouts with the Army and Navy...
Otherwise, Bette Davis, except in her scenes with Francis Bacon, ably acted by Donald Crisp, dominates the picture as singlehandedly as Elizabeth dominated England. For though slow-smiling, boyish Errol Flynn in a pair of seven-league boots will flutter more hearts than the Queen's, dramatically he leaves the impression that, in chopping off his head, Elizabeth is performing one of the more sensible acts of her reign...
When twilight fell on the People's Game of 1939, most football fans agreed that it was not Irish luck but heads-up football that has made this gear's Notre Dame machine one of the few undefeated, untied teams in the country. Except for Notre Dame's bigger & better backs (so many and so good that none hogs the spotlight), the margin of difference last week between the West Pointers and the South Benders was slight. But the Irish were quicker on the uptake. When an Army back fumbled in the second quarter, Notre Dame recovered...