Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ithacans, boasting the best team batting average in the league--a healthy 305 before its twin bill with Yale--moved out of the cellar at New Haven yesterday as a result of an even split with the Elis. The Crimson now lies a half-game behind the Bulldogs, and two Harvard victories today, coupled with a win by Penn over Yale at Philadelphia, would return Coach Dolph Samborski's forces to first place...
Other individual championships went to Lowell in swimming, Kirkland in fencing and volleyball, Eliot in softball, and Winthrop in tennis. Adams, Dunster, and Dudley failed to cop any top laurels, though the Gold Coasters did send their victorious "A" squash team down to defeat the Yale champions at New Haven. Final House Standings Leverett 1144 Eliot 1096 Winthrop 1067 Kirkland 1037 Lowell 1028 Adams 869 Dunster 865 Dudley...
...What has Mr. Attlee's Government done so far that we haven't been doing? Last week it passed its bill nationalizing all inland transport. Well, some 20 years ago our House of Commons passed a bill nationalizing one of our transcontinental railways [Canadian National, which has a total of 32,103 track miles, also has holdings in steamships, hotels and summer resorts] and since then we've nationalized our air transport, both inland and overseas...
...British are nationalizing their electricity. We nationalized ours years & years ago, or a vast part of it. ... (Ramsay MacDonald, here in the 1920s, said we had more socialism than England.) . . . Mr. Attlee nationalized the Bank of England; it is no more nationalized than our Bank of Canada. Also, haven't we a nationalized radio . . . not to speak of complete control of our wheat marketing, nationalized steamships, plus all sorts of other controls...
...front of the Hit Parade. Mam'selle jumped from 25th to first place on sheet music best-seller lists in ten weeks. Said Whistler Goulding proudly: "When you whistle you're naked. You can't play covering chords to conceal the fact that you haven't got a good tune...