Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street. It was the kind of a car that means for the open road, and its mood was the mood of its fair inhabitants. And it frankly gave in to claustrophobia and wouldn't turn. So the hilarious females, full of the joie de vivre, summoned a passing Harvard lad to extricate them from their troubles. Sir Lancelot obliged like a true knight, but, the troubles over, he was heard by the damsels no longer in distress to drop the remark "Just Radcliffe...
...events and steadily increased their lead over the Elis, the possibility of Harvard victory grew into a probability. And with this the volume of applause steadily grew. It burst out when Rus Greenhood won the dive; when it was announced that Hutter would swim the 440; and when that lad placed second and thus assured a Crimson triumph it reached unbelievable heights. Harvard had gone swimming-crazy...
...turning point that sent the meet in Harvard's direction, if there can be a turning point in a steady procession, was when Rus Greenhood won the dive. Those who know the Crimson Sophomore best felt sure he would win: others thought of Endweiss, but it was the Harvard lad all the way when the competition began...
...Like You Best of All", a none-too-short story devoid of sense, lot, and quotation marks, and having as its here a bespectacled, lad of about ten years. His unfortunate experience as the lover of a classmate who has as her other admirer a slightly elder and stronger boy, is told with no effect and appears insipid. Reviewers of books, theatre and cinema plus a fairly entertaining story entitled "A Matter of Strategy" and a sonnet sequence, make up the balance of the issue...
...Charlie Tell, Princeton's massive all-American football player. Though he had a weight advantage of some 45 pounds, a height advantage of five inches, the huge Tiger is more brute strength than skill and agility, and the 1000 people who came to see the meet watched the Crimson lad win an exciting match in overtime, a match in which feeling run so high that for a moment the two grapplers forgot it was wrestling and not boxing that they were engaged...