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Word: laking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell sweeps its mighty strokes through the Charles next Saturday, Spike Chace and the Crimson oarsmen are going to have their hands full trying to retain an undefeated title. The Tech men will be in there too, but their eight-length defeat by Harvard on Lake Carnegie proves they will not even count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Flying Nine, Crew Meet Crucial Tests This Week | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

...Tiger Fifties were the only home oarsmen who swept Lake Carnegie on Saturday and offer the most serious challenge to the Crimson. But stroke Vince Bailey and his seven sweepers will have had two whole weeks of solid workouts and have a better than even chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Flying Nine, Crew Meet Crucial Tests This Week | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

...alumni sat down to dinners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason for last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Dick's Anniversary | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...double class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Dick's Anniversary | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Turning turtle while alighting on Lake Union, Washington, a seaplane piloted by Bradford Washburn '33, geographer and explorer, trapped two women in its submerged cabin late Saturday. Washburn and James Borrows, the third passenger, were thrown clear and picked up by passing craft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEAPLANE PILOTED BY WASHBURN TRAPS WOMEN | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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