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...Meaty" Cordingley lost to Bob Bingham, 2-1 as "Hunker" Graves was winning from Joe Fall, 4-3. Amherst won the best ball in this foursome. "Pious" Pete Macgowan gave Harvard another point by beating Durkes, 3-1, and Don Peddie finished all even with George Baird. The best ball was also tied. Gerry Davis and Jack McCann were beaten, 3-2 and 5-3 respectively, and Amherst also took this best ball point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Trips Linksmen, 6-3; Freshmen Beat Tech, 4 1/2-1 1/2 | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...Donahne is entered in the high hurdles, Bob Partlow and Johnnie Bunker in the high jump. Partlow cleared six feet in the K. of C. meet, but Hunker, a six footer of yore who should have the bamboo up to six feet, two inches by now, has yet to hit his stride. Donahne has been running well and in smooth form; he will have real competition is Shields of Yale and may be pushed to as extraordinary time...

Author: By Paul I. Carp, | Title: Boardmen Compete in BAA; Weight Heavers Vie in Cages | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

...only one halved match. Graves took all the others, but he had to work for some of them. Graves and No. 1 man Ace Cordingley form a very strong best ball due; they play together almost every day with the usual amount of side bets. To Graves Cordingley is "hunker"; to Cordingley, Graves is "meaty." Fair-haired Bob is a former Minnesota Junior title-holder, but he has never won his state amateur crown. This year he gets a real chance as the championship is played over his home course--White Bear Yacht Club for mountain goate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's His Number-- | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

After a competition starting last year. Robert M. Hunker '39 and John V. Kean '38 were elected to the Literary Board of the Lampoon. Survivors of the competition for the Business Board were Richard B. McLanathan '38 and John N. Thorne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Annexes | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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