Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another time Tom Bolles pitted three class crews against each other. In this race the 1941 crew won, but once again it would almost have been called obvious from a quick glance at the boatings. Stroked by Sherm Gray, the Junior boat was made up with a good many members of last year's varsity. In addition the eight was enhanced by the presence of Behn Riggs who felt that he was unable to row last year what with the press of scholastic work...
...indefiniteness of the Bolles findings brings to mind the statement made by Mr. Meikleham who was for many years a race official at New London. He said that the choice of any one type of crew man for a boat was almost entirely a matter of contemporary style, and that the best crew man did not necessarily have to confine himself to any particular build. His knowledge was based not only on his long association with crew but upon the fact that while he was a Captain of the Columbia crew he helped to nurse the sport...
When I heard the band in New York, I was exceedingly impressed with the dancibility of the band, and their swing septet that really plays swing. In other words, they don't work out very flossy arrangements and then tell everybody that they made them up on the second. It's strictly ab lib, and soft, and very good...
...considered by most critics to be the greatest of the colored style bands, has a band of men who grew up in Kansas City and have played together for about ten years; and that Bob Crosby, admitted to be the best of the Dixieland type jazz, has a band made up in large part of men who hail from New Orleans, where all this fuss called jazz really got started...
This clear headed, cool--yes, quite embarrassingly logical--"rising generation," Mr. McLaughlin, has read the history its fathers made and weighed the old catch-words. "Hysterical inhibitions" seem to me often more obvious in the appeal of "leaders of thought" than in the cautious, let's-look-before-we-leap (this time) discussions of ont only Harvard but all other graduates, and of the un-"exposed to education" young men in our streets...