Word: gale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further awards for study at Cambridge University, England were announced. The Lionel De Jersey Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske 3rd Scholarship at Trinity College, both given in memory of men killed in World War I, were presented to Justin Edgerton Gale of Andover and Kirkland House, and Richard Paradise of Quincy and Eliot House. Gale is the present number five oar on the varsity crew...
Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY...
...result of a 1929 decision by a group of "Old Blues" who felt that the old buildings were inadequate. Now a string of white shingled structures--three dwellings, a dinning hall, and a boathouse--grace the secluded slopes less than a mile south of Yale's head-quarters at Gale's Ferry...
...seemed hard to believe that so bland and salve-like a substance as oleomargarine could have set off so abrasive a row. As the House debated repeal of federal oleo taxes last week, party lines snapped like serpentin in a gale; the sulphurous debate grew reminiscent of argument in a waterfront saloon. But there was a good reason. Congress holds few subjects more sacred than 1) American womanhood and 2) American cows. Oleo had forced an awful choice between them...
...return of Jud Gale to the Crimson shell may help to bring down the odds on the Harvards, but experts still rate the Sailors favorites on the basis of past performance and on their greater backlog of experience. But Tom Bolles' charges seemed destined for at least a second-place, since their Pennsylvania hosts are not too highly regarded in informed quarters...