Word: kon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading the Crimson squad will be Captain Chick chandler, wrestling in the 157-pound class, land Kon Culbert at 177. Culbert this season has won eight bouts by pins and lost two by decisions...
...Later he got a master's degree at New York State's College of Ceramics. Not content with formal training, Gilbertson also sat at the feet of Pueblo Indian squaws to learn their pottery methods. Then he crossed the Pacific and apprenticed himself for two years to Kon-jiro Kawai, a ceramist much honored in Japan...
Ever since Kon-Tiki, the publishing tide has run strongly seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride...
...medley team of Mulvey, Emerson, and Hedberg set a school record for that event by two seconds with a 2:53 clocking. The old time of 2:55 was set by Mulvey, Emerson, and Kon Huebsch. But Yale, in winning, established a pool and meet record. Kiphuth used Dick Thoman, Dennis O'Connor and Donovan in a try for the world's record. Except for two bad turns they might have had it, too. Their time was 2:48.4--1.3 off the record of Ohio State but two seconds under the other records set by recent Yale teams. Dillingham...
...Chicago, Thor Heyerdahl, who rafted his way to fame with the South Seas voyage of the Kon-Tiki, said that he was planning another expedition, "less spectacular and more sober-minded," this time to South America...