Word: gold
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This is the first time an American college crew has returned in toto to compete in the elimination races. The 1920 Annapolis crew--known as the Navy admirals--which won the Olympic Gold Medal that year attempted the feat in 1924 but only a portion of the eight oarsmen were available for competition. It was eventually beaten out in the trials for the honor of representing the United States...
Football coaches Hank Dunker and Ralph Jones have eleven members returning from last year's varsity, which tied Dunster for the league championship. Leading the Gold Coast offense will be veterans Bill Radomsky at quarterback Frank Weller at fullback, and Charley Bauer at halfback. Sophomore Charles Currier will find the other halfback slot. The starting line is undecided with several veterans fighting it out for the seven posts...
...spoke with tongues of gold; our lovers blundered...
Cadillac's 1956 standard models were only face-lifted from last year. The major change is in the engine, with a boost in horsepower from 250 to 285 on most models. An optional new feature: gold-trimmed front grilles and wheel disks...
...there a solution to the South African dilemma? Gunther saw none, but he found hope elsewhere on the troubled continent-notably in British West Africa, where the hustling rival colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria are driving hard toward independence. In Accra, the Gold Coast capital, he attended a debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access...