Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the summer they used to go swimming along the endless, pine-studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor...
...self-respecting if tough neighborhood. Of French descent, Leo went to St. Louis Roman Catholic Church. But two years as an altar boy did not soften him noticeably. At 17, Leo was the best pool shot in town (though his habit of talking to his opponent while the latter was lining up a shot was not considered ethical), and the brassiest guy on the Wico Electric Co. baseball club...
H.A.A. construction plans call for nine new clay courts just west of the Dillon Field House and two large batteries on the farther side of Soldiers Field. The former will occupy the site of the old Military Science stables, and the latter, constructed of a quick-drying asphalt mixture, will be on the site of the prewar grouping...
Starting in 1893, the young groundskeeper watched from the sidelines as Harvard's progress in the pole vault began paralleling its academic growth--the latter under Eliot, Lowell, and finally Conant, who hadn't yet seen the light of day when Mike was babying his first track here out on Jarvis Field...
...chairman for the committee has not yet been chosen, but the Student Council will elect a member of the committee to that position before the end of the week. Tickets will probably go on sale in the latter part of next week...