Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first place the H.A.A. hasn't got the money to finance the trip out to Michigan and in the second place Franny isn't too keen about spending two more dreary weeks of training. Paddling over a mile a day up and down the pool is boring enough when the rest of the team is doing it with you, but when you're all alone it's duller than Monday night at the Raymor...
...main trouble with this sport is that there are no rules nor is the field of play well defined. For Harvard Square isn't even a square; it's a hang-over from a colonial meeting joint now passing for a race track. Every would-be traffic reformer must accept the tenet that the place hasn't changed appreciably in design since 1636 and will continue so. Therefore any traffic regulations will have to be content with modifying what stands...
...Spotted along the eastern seaboard are eight of its laboratories, where 600 engineers try to improve radio's present, dope out its future. Equipped to examine everything from a $9 receiver to the most complicated electronic devices, the research units are the best in existence. But the best isn't good enough for RCA. Last week RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the company was preparing to build at Princeton, N. J. "the world's largest radio research laboratories," complete with lecture auditorium and RCA's combined technical and patent libraries...
...Harvard Crimson, from their Ivy-League Cellar, tut-tutting the choice of All-Americans Bevan and Barley, the drafting of a Cassiano from the pro ranks. For the Crimson has often seemed to operate on the principle that Ivy League football is all right so long as it isn't good football...
...usual punching self demonstrated that the world is his with two fists and a correspondence course in dentistry. He picked up an alluring nurse--Olivia de Haviland, in a swell park scene, but doesn't like her. Instead the cockney Irishman chases exciting Rita Hayworth, the strawberry blonde, and isn't fast enough to land her. But you knew he would marry Olivia and become a dentist. Black-mailed and jugged by a former friend, Cagney gets his diploma in "solitary," bounces back into life, does some nice revenging and sends the fans home happy...