Word: meets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approaching humor. Once, when the going got dreary, Bevin told his colleagues: "I feel like an orphan at the table. I am the only one here who wasn't brought up as a lawyer." When the lawyers tried to set an hour for the start of the secret meetings, Vishinsky said: "If we meet tomorrow at 3, I think I will have had enough sleep...
...expense account. But the tabloid's biggest circulation-puller was a lively column of double-meaning "Strictly Personal" want ads, which sniggering newsmen on other Los Angeles papers suspected Mirror staffers of writing themselves. Sample: "Man with lavender shirt that's a dilly would like to meet lady with blue dress that's a dilly. Object lavender blue dilly dilly. Box K-47. Mirror...
More will be known about the capabilities of the Oxford-Cambridge team after its meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding...
Fuchs put the 16-pound shot 56 feet, 11 1/2 inches last week in the New York Met meet. Michigan's world record-holder Chuck Fonville is the only athlete who has bettered that distance. Appel has vaulted 14 feet, Wade has run a 4:13 mile, and the freshman Hipple twins, who high jump in their bare feet, generally get up around 6 feet, 2 inches...
Fencing--Men who participate in any four meet win a minor H. Major H's go to individual winners in the Intercollegiate Fencing Association, and to winning teams at the I.F.A. tourney in epee, foils, or saber. Double credit for Yale...