Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this competition will be shortened by early Commencement (it's guaranteed to end before exams) and eased by the new three-a-week schedule. What old-timers fondly swear was worse than basic training will thus be transformed to a short jaunt. And it's still the News Board...
...Schoenfeld, whose officiating is confined almost entirely to Madison Square Garden, must have been amazed at what went on. A moment didn't pass without players of both sides on the floor scrambling for the ball, and the walking which had marked the first half, seemed like a short jaunt compared to the mass hegiras both teams indulged in during the last twenty minutes...
...suggestion has been made to all S-I's that they take advantage of the next war Sunday to stage a bicycle trip into the country-side around Cambridge. Last Sunday, such a jaunt was taken by several members of the School and pronounced a grand success...
...torpedoed, and I practically froze in my bed. I didn't want to get out. I was musclebound, you might say, for several seconds." After that trip, he was sent to the Long Island rest home. After two weeks he was still afraid of crowds, and a short jaunt by train and ferry almost unnerved him. But after a good sleep, without nightmares-"I feel very good," he said. Soon he would be back...
...many of the younger men on the team weren't used to such a journey. Another blow was the loss of Bob Goodspeed who was called back to Cambridge by his draft board after the New York encounter and was unable to continue on the second leg of the jaunt...