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...varsity sailing team placed second in the McMillan Cup regatta at Annapolis over the weekend. The freshmen took first place in a pentagonal meet at M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sailors Place Second Behind M.I.T. for McMillan Cup | 4/7/1953 | See Source »

...McMillan's 32-yard dash was the only score of the game. It gave Centre College a 6 to 0 victory, and "the greatest upset of the half-century," according to a sportswriters poll taken...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/5/1952 | See Source »

Skipper John Bishop turned in come brilliant upwind sailing over the weekend, but even his superlative performance was not enough to prevent Williams from edging the varsity sailors, 30 to 19 1/4 in the McMillan Cup regatta at Annapolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailing Team Finishes Second in McMillan Cup Race; Bishop Stars | 4/8/1952 | See Source »

...Sharers of the chemistry prize were the University of California's Edwin M. McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg. Both were leaders of teams that synthesized the "transuranian elements," i.e., elements heavier than uranium (atomic number 92). First made was neptunium (No. 93), which McMillan named after the planet just outside Uranus. Neptunium turns spontaneously into plutonium (No. 94), used in atom bombs. The other transuranian elements, also produced for the first time at Berkeley: americium (No. 95), curium (No. 96), berkelium (No. 97) and californium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...half-century" last year when this Yale game was considered at the time, of far greater import. But perhaps in the long run it is only right that the Centre game should stand out above all as the "darkest hour" for the Crimson as a national power. When Bo McMillan scored the game's only touchdown on a 32 yard dash, he ended more than a five-year streak which included a Rose Bowl victory. He had unwittingly written finis to the scourge of the nation's gridirons. Harvard was to rise to the top again at times...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/6/1951 | See Source »

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