Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week he had a perfect opportunity--the traditional dinner honoring the crew that beat Yale last spring. But the 1952 crew banquet had much more to it than just feting a winning eight. It was a tribute to Bolles himself, who retired last spring after climaxing 16 years as coach with the victory at New London. His remarkable record while at Cambridge shows victories over 173 crews in 77 races, with losses to only 23 opposing boats. The dinner was really...
...mentioned the Henley victories of two years ago, but Bolles said last June 22 was his biggest day. "The McCagg crew rowed as nearly a perfect race as human beings can," he said. It holds a very special place in my memory." And well it night. It was his last crew, and one of his best...
Debaters of the Norfolk Prison Colony added another win to a perfect season by beating Harvard decisively last night at Norfolk...
Walt Greeley scored the first goal at 14:13 when he slapped Amory Hubbard's pass over Eli goalie Pete Cruikshank's stick. Hubbard took the puck down the eight wing around the defense and gave Greeley a perfect goalmouth pass from the corner...
...Hayes) whose efforts to turn her young son (Brandon de Wilde) into Little Lord Fauntleroy have made him even more of a Peck's Bad Boy. With the help of a witch named Mrs. McThing, the son has been whisked to a dive operated by mobsters, and a perfect little gentleman has been substituted at home. Just when the mother finds out how much worse a too-good boy can be than a bad one, she finds out that the good boy is really not hers. She tracks hers down to the dive, only to discover that a substitute...