Word: grid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navigate under clouds. Professor Yeagley considered all the possibilities. While looking at a map which had lines representing the intensity of the earth's magnetism, he noted that the lines were crossed at varying angles by the parallels of latitude. The two sets of lines formed an irregular grid, something like the crossing lines on a sheet of graph paper. Used together, the lines served as a "frame of reference." If pigeons, he reasoned, are sensitive to some factor connected with the lines of latitude, they have all they need to find their way home. Steering by a latitude...
Groundsmen and ticket takers may be filling in gaps in the Varsity eleven lineup next fall if the Harlow system has to fall back on the turnout to yesterday's opening session of summer grid conditioning...
...addition, House football, which to a large extent has solved the lighter man's grid problem, stands in the way of a revival. Rivalries have become so deeply entrenched, Bingham pointed out, that Housemasters might object strongly to the reorganization of a sport that would drain off their best talent...
With today's competition, squash, swimming, and basketball follow football in post-war resumption of hostilities with Yale College champions. Lowell and Adams are out to reassert Crimson House supremacy, sorely tested in the seven grid contests, in which only one local entry emerged triumphant. STRAUS CUP STANDINGS House Total Points Leverett 577 1/2 Lowell 577 1/2 Eliot 487 1/2 Dunster 485 Kirkland 480 Winthrop 465 Adams 412 1/2 Dudley...
...linemen and two backs on the Crimson varsity won honorable mention on the associated Press and United Press All-American grid teams released simultaneously yesterday...