Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Studebaker, key man in this key job, is lean, spectacled, a wiry bundle of energy. Iowa-born, a star all-round high-school and college athlete who worked his way through Leander Clark College as a union bricklayer, he was national director of the Junior Red Cross in World War I. As an educator, he distinguished himself chiefly by organizing public forums where adults might discuss problems of democracy, first as Superintendent of Schools in Des Moines, since 1934 as U. S. Commissioner...
...midshipman, U. S. doubles player (with Jack Kramer) in the Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...
...service this clientele, Dr. Albert and Junior Partner Westrick used to commute between Berlin and New York. But by the time Hitler took over. Dr. Westrick had not been important enough in the Weimar regime to be objectionable to the new. He got by. Early this year, when Hitler began thinking of his post-war relations with the U. S., he logically dug Lawyer Westrick out of the pigeonhole marked: "familiar with the inside of a U. S. businessman's lunch club, controllable." No beer-hall Nazi is Dr. Westrick, but simply a scout and atmosphere-conjurer, sent over...
...hour later, when six junior varsity eights lined up for their three-mile race, a stiff head wind had become considerably stiffer. Before the shells had traveled 200 yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like the orchestra in Radio City's Music Hall. Official launches scurried to the rescue, scurried on to rescue Syracuse, Columbia, California. Cornell and Navy managed to stay afloat for nearly a mile. Frantic horn-tooting and whistle-blowing finally notified them that the race had been called...
After most of the crowd had called it a day (spectators on the observation train had shuttled 30 miles during their six-hour watch), the ill-fated junior varsity race took place in pitch darkness with lanterns lighting the way. Washington won that...