Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U. S. had been tacking along that beautiful coast for years, itching to hoist-and occasionally hoisting-their flags in nominally Mexican territory. At the outbreak of war the U. S. Government sent Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a fire-eating officer from Princeton, N. J., to reinforce the Pacific squadron. Mexican ports were blockaded, Mexican ships burned, Mexican towns bombarded. In several engagements Commodore Stockton's seamen beat Mexican troops all hollow...
Besides his work in this field, Harlow is a fairly well known botanist, but his abilities in this line have not been officially recognized by the University. He is also football coach...
...Captain Bob Haydock, '39, twelve members of the Varsity track team will make their winter debut in the K. of C. Meet tomorrow night. The Crimson contingent is not expected to do more than place one or two men in a field which includes such star performers as Glenn Cunningham, Dave Albritton and Alan Tolmich, but as Coach Mikkola puts it: "Upsets can happen anytime...
...Bullet Bob" Gammons '39, comes out of a year's retirement with his torn leg muscle "as good as new," in an effort to dominate the fifty-yard dash field...
...recently, must still be termed strictly tentative. Nevertheless, Harvard can ill afford to overlook the opportunities presented by domestically inclined North Carolinians, especially when the prospectus for the Conference proclaims: "The program of this conference, as was true of those preceding, is made up of co-laborers in the field of marriage...