Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dick Lewis will let him know that the has been through a real dog-fight. Sophomore Dick Aldrich is close on the heels of both men. Almost the same thing applies to the heavyweight class where grappler-manager Tudor Gardiner holds forth. Big Vern Miller will undoubtedly learn a lot of wrestling in a few weeks under Pat Johnson, but hard-working Gardiner will give him a good battle before being displaced. Dick Harlow's endorsement of wrestling for many of his linemen has brought quite a few big boys up to the black mat on the second floor. Chub...
...last I have found him. At any rate he assures me that he really is one of that mysterious group, the Harvard Communists. But personally if they are all as kind-hearted as he, I can continue to sleep at night. For although he has traveled a lot, and acquired such heretical doctrines as International Federation, and Government Rule of Industry, he has never been to Russia, nor even taken up the fad and learned Russian. I am afraid his enthusiasm will not last...
...will be picked up there, form all those who care to go up, but Captain Tom Winship of the ski team did not care to make any predictions. "Tommy Thomas, Harry Hollmeyer, and a transfer from Middlebury, Lloyd Butterfield, have a pretty good chance. There seem to be a lot of good Freshmen who've had European experience, but every place on the team is open...
...Friday evening at 8.30 o'clock Hal Ulen will be finding out a lot about the greatest unknown quantity on his Varsity swimming squad--the group of 15 Sophomores who constitute a large part of the squad's reserve element, and who, in some cases, will be holding down first-rate positions in the line-up. The occasion will be the annual Alumni vs. Varsity meet, a contest always fraught with thrills...
...above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...