Word: loader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope to retreat to Rome where they can be protected by the Vatican's Swiss Guards." Swiss Guards carry halberds. By an order of the peace-minded Supreme Pontiff last week the effective modern rifles of His Holiness' fur-helmeted Palatine Guards were replaced by 1840 muzzle-loaders which have been stored away in the Vatican for over half a century. If the Papal troops were ever military, they are now wholly demilitarized. Each muzzle-loader, now so rusty it would be hazardous to fire it, requires two Palatine Guards to work it, one to fire...
Harvard's best driver was last year's loader, Rusty Greenhood. He scored 137 against Yale for a Harvard record, but Patnik of Ohio State has scored over 160 several times. Any score from 90 to 110 is good; from 110 up is excellent. George Dana '40 has scored 116-on the high board. Most divers are 5 to 10 points better from the high board. The world's 100-yard record of 51 flat held by Weismuller and Fick will probably be the first to be broken. Hutter's Harvard mark is 52 flat; anything under 53.5 is excellent...