Word: pawtucket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's two figure-skaters received special awards this year, the only two presented. Richard T. Button '52 of Englewood, N. J., and Lowell House, Olympic Champion, World Champion, and U. S. Champion figure-skater, and Dudley S. Richards '54 of Pawtucket, R. I., and Lowell House both were awarded special letters. Button received a special award for his skating last year, also...
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...Pawtucket, R.I., the A.F. of L. Teachers' Alliance (to which all but 58 of the city's 520 teachers belong) was out on strike for the second week, demanding a $410 cost-of-living salary boost. With their classrooms technically open (in order to qualify for state financial aid), some students were dutifully checking in at the usual time in the morning, milling around for a bit, and then resuming their unexpected holiday...
Some puzzlers can be answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...