Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played tennis on the slick, wooden floor of the 7th Regiment Armory for the National Indoor Championship. Neither the strange surface nor the deceptive lighting unsettled him; he breezed easily through the early rounds. What annoyed him was the fact that he couldn't get enough sleep. "It isn't the tennis matches," he explained carefully, "just New York. It keeps me awake...
...Southern clubs always have the jump on their northern visitors as far as training goes, so Stuffy isn't expecting great things during the spring trip. But the annual jaunt is valuable in that it gives the coach a chance to find out who his dependable pitchers are and who he can count on for base hits...
Actually, the Crimson score isn't so impressive as it looks. A "try," which is worth three points, is roughly comparable to a touchdown in football and occurs when a player down the ball behind the enemy goal line...
...spring trip begins on Monday against Pennsylvania, which fortunately isn't in the fanatic belt. Navy meets the varsity on Wednesday, and tosses the remains on to Maryland for a Friday game...
This leaves about $500 per House which must be collected by May 1 to meet a deadline on legal assurance forms. If the money isn't raised by this time, the whole project will collapse...