Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying up and down the Charles these spring days are four distinct varieties of oarsmen: Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshmen, and 150's. Those in the last group, however, into a special classification. Their standard racing shell is two inches narrower and a shade lighter than the others, and their usual racing distance is shorter by seven sixteenths of a mile. Weight restrictions limit their boat average to an even one fifty and their individual poundage to a hundred and fifty five...
...light oarsmen deserve better treatment for several reasons. They have occupied an official place in Harvard's athletic roster since the early twenties. In Bert Haines they have one of the finest and most colorful of crew coaches. Last season they rowed alternately 150 and Junior Varsity and went through the season undefeated in both classes...
Dick Powell, Hollywood's prettiest tough guy, is cast as a tinhorn gambler with a heart of pure gold. As junior partner in a plushy gambling house, he is suspected of the murder of a crooked cop (Jim Bannon) and the cop's girl (Nina Foch). Powell can take some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such...
...memory, are decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred years...
Potential careers in the field of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be the subject of a forum in Winthrop Junior Common Room at 7:15 o'clock Wednesday, John W. Teele, director of the Office of Student Placement, announced last night...