Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Entirely a veteran aggregation, the Harvard team should win both these matches without much difficulty. Despite the fact that the Crimson has had less than a week of outdoor practice its form to date has been encouraging, and previous Varsity experience will be a telling factor in the matches this Friday and Saturday...
...difficult to believe that it is necessary to forego our most effective way of holding a rally for peace at a time when our peace is in such great danger, merely because there is a possibilitythat some rowdy elements of the community may interfere. The advantages of an outdoor meeting in the Yard over an indoor meeting are apparent; there should be no difficulty in taking precautions to maintain order...
Ladies in Retirement is one of those hard-hitting, old-fashioned melodramas which somehow make the newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens. And it has the solid English virtue of never sacrificing plausibility to excitement: every detail, is made clear, and every character is pretty much of a human being...
Boys work the school coal mine, run a sawmill, a gristmill, take their turn in the print shop (only one in Knott County, pop. 15,230). Girls run the dining hall. Sports are difficult-the outdoor basketball court was dynamited out of the hillside...
...Negro John Youie Woodruff, loping around in nine-foot strides, erased the records Borican set last year. His 1:47.7 clocking for the half-mile and 1:47 flat for 800 metres were even better than the outdoor marks for those distances made by Briton Sydney Wooderson last summer...