Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning Cadets made 461 birds and led Harvard; Babson, which scored 423 points; and West Point and Crimson second teams which also competed. The Yale team, also scheduled to compete, was disqualified because only three men out of the five-man team showed up at Lordship, Connecticut, where the meet was held...
Currently this group is practicing for the Intercollegiate College Shoot to be held at Lordship, Conn., late in November. And it would like to enter a second, third, and even fourth team in the meet if it can muster enough new men this fall...
...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...
...Lordship, a gaunt, stoop-shouldered six-footer, hovered over all calculations like a specter. Said a Liverpool stevedore, wiping ale from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race...
...contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...