Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already defeated this season by Tufts and Rhode Island State, the varsity is working doubly hard this week. Like a losing poker player who doesn't dare drop, the team is hoping to make its comeback bid later in the game. For the team, a win over the Indians would more than even the season's record. Anything after that is sheer profit, like a win over Yale or something else similar that you just don't talk about out loud...
Dave Gregory, last year's freshman captain, is the number one Crimson hope. Grogery has paced the team in both its meets so far, leading it to victory over Holy Cross in last week's triangular meet that included Rhode Island State's overpowering squad. Owen Edmonds, another sophomore, carries a large lead of responsibility, according to Coach Mikkola. Dave Calrns and John Panky also appear vitally necessary for the Crimson, as de Dick White and Captain Joe Leeming...
...cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River" by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters...
Bald, stocky, 59-year-old Doc Hill had tried almost everything else on the island of Hawaii before Dible got him into flowers five years ago. Hill's first job, in 1913, was selling eyeglasses to Japanese plantation hands on Hawaii at $3 apiece. He did so well that he opened a jewelry store, later branched out to finance, real estate, autos (he has the General Motors franchise on Hawaii), movie theaters (he owns ten) and utilities (he is president and principal stockholder of Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd.). When Hill's wife started shipping a few orchids...
Pins & Packing. The flower company grows no orchids itself, buys them at 4? apiece from 428 island growers. It boasts that it is the "only firm in the world which can get an order for 50,000 vandas and ship them out the same...