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...second head. Even so, the heavy Finisterre drives well to windward, boils downwind with her centerboard up. More important, because Finisterre's lines are far from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage of the long and lean. Though Finisterre finished 31st in the Bermuda fleet, her handicap of 24 hr. 41 min. gave her victory...
...such courses as History 1, Government 1, and Biology D took advantage of the opportunity to correlate their knowledge. At finals ten reviews were given, among the most successful of which were Chemistry A and History 1. To the former came two-thirds of those enrolled to unsnarl their formula-ridden minds. As for the latter review it threw a beam of light across six hundred years and caused the broad outlines of the whole to fall into meaningful order. The most severe jolt handed the Committee was during the review of Government 1, when the students walked...