Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convention. In Salt Lake City, Utah's G.A.R. held its 60th annual convention, nominated Ira Stormes, 96, for the organization's presidency, re-elected him for the eleventh consecutive time. The Utah G.A.R.'s entire membership: Ira Stormes...
University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...
Sleep. In Los Angeles, the parents of weary Thomas Hall, 21, left him at home asleep, returned several hours later, found that a 100-ft. tree had crashed through the house into the living room. Thomas was still asleep. In Salt Lake City, the Edward G. Thomas family slept undisturbed while somebody stole a ton of coal from their coal shed...
...during the first half-mile when the latter were favored with calmer water. From the three quarter mark on the lightweights began to gain, but at the finish were still four feet behind Princeton, with Penn sandwiched second. The Tigers, in taking the Wright Cup from Harvard, shattered the Lake Carnegie Henly mark for the second time this year...
Haines decided to leave the Crimson shells at Princeton over the week, since today's race, as well as last Saturday's is scheduled for Lake Carnegie. During the past week, rowing in heavy boats, Cunningham has reasserted himself, defeating Abbot by a half-length in a fast Henley time trial...