Word: merrimac
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...Peruvian gunboat Loreto should not be the pride and joy of anyone's navy. Built in England in 1932, it makes a mere twelve knots at flank speed and looks like a cross between the Merrimac and an early Frank Lloyd Wright house. There are seven such gunboats in the Peruvian Navy, drawing cheers from the whole country. Their crews are physicians, dentists, technicians and nurses, and their mission is to build schools and provide medical care for 800,000 people, most of them primitive Indians living in the jungles along the Peruvian Amazon...
Although the Crimson has not officially opened its season, the squad has scrimmage dagainst the United States national team and against Merricac College. The varsity played scoreless hockey against the Nationals, but displayed its scoring potential by netting 12 goals against the poorer Merrimac varsity...
...Nice Boys." Baxter prepped for the Williams presidency at Harvard, where his Ph.D. thesis disproved the idea that the Monitor and the Merrimac were the world's first ironclad ships (the first: France's Gloire in 1859). When he became Master of the newly opened Adams House, Baxter learned the art of running a college. The chance came in 1937 when Williams President Tyler Dennett quit after only three years (he thought the trustees were wasting money). It was Dennett who summed up one of Baxter's main problems: "Nice boys-I mean the well-mannered, sophisticated...
...varsity baseball game with MIT and the last half of the Greater Boston Golf Championships, both scheduled for yesterday, were cancelled on account of rain. The baseball game has not yet been rescheduled, but the golf tournament will be continued May 19 at the Merrimac Valley CC in Haverhill...
Crimson offered fell far behind Tufts in the first half of the Greater Boston Golf. Championships yesterday and will need a near miracle to overcome the Jumbos is stroke lead in the tournament's last day of the Merrimac Valley CC in Haverhill today...