Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Norm Shepard has a difficult task ahead of him this spring--to match or better the record of last year's nine, the team that took the Greater Boston League title and went undefeated in Ivy League play until its last loop contest, when it lost to Yale...
...stormy night in 1946, the Mighty Mo got out of its bed in the Decatur loop, midway between Omaha and Sioux City, and settled in a new bed half a mile to the east. This confronted the civic fathers of Onawa, Iowa (pop. 3,498) and Decatur, Neb. (pop. 808) with an embarrassing problem. After 25 years of pleading, Congress had finally authorized a toll bridge spanning the mile-wide Missouri to connect the two towns. But should they build the bridge over the old or new bed? The Army engineers said to build over the old channel, since...
...House athletic program eased back into action yesterday after the usual mid-year exam break. In intra-House squash competition yesterday Eliot defeated Leverett 4 to 1 in an "A" league match. In the "B" loop, Dunster defeated Lowell 6 to 0 and Leverett beat Eliot 4 to 0 in "C" league competition...
Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...next six, the teams traded baskets, and the Crimson stayed close, close enough to give hope that this year's team might go somewhere in the Ivy League, might even have a chance to bring Harvard its first championship in the loop's 54-year history...