Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they do that Harvard's sunk. Mitchell's laddies haven't looked like a pennant winner most of this season, and this is going to be a pretty tough assignment. The Green is in somewhat the same boat as Harvard. Both teams have only one Grade A experienced pitcher. Here at Cambridge it's Captain Eddie Loughlin; up at Hanover it's Bob Miller, the fellow who took both halves of a doubleheader from Pennsylvania last week. With Miller carrying most of the assignment Dartmouth has turned in a dangerous record lately. Outside the League they've taken colleges like...
...volume is being put out by the Andover Press, as is also the 1937 Freshman Red Book, but is printed on a better grade of paper than the latter. It is dedicated to President Conant...
...coffee spilled as the train rocketed around curves at 90 m. p. h. Twice "Zeph," the burro, toppled over. Folk turned out by the cheering thousands in 164 dust-bitten western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal...
...factory ships like the Sir James Clark Ross or the 25,000-ton Kosmos swallow the whale through a port in the stern and haul the carcass on deck. There flensers with knives as big as hoes strip the blubber, which produces the highest grade of oil. Power saws reduce the skeleton to handy chunks which can be tossed into steam digesters. In some ships the meat is canned (largely for Japanese consumption) and what scraps remain are ground or burned for fertilizer. For "whalebone," which is not bone but gargantuan mouth bristles, there is now almost no market...
This Saturday the grade will move back into the spotlight when the Varsity and the Alumni play their annual game at Soldiers Field. According to all reports the old-timers haven't been weakened by age and will be tough opposition...