Word: placers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muggy Mugasoth, who learned to play squash in Bombay, India is number two. Wynn particularly likes his good placement and drop shots. Next on the ladder stands Austin Flagg, an accurate placer who usually manages to hold the center court position...
Bayard Robb may be playing in the number one slot. Robb has been teetering between baseball and tennis for the past few weeks and his decision is still in doubt. Tall, rangy, and a hitter or a placer at will, he has displayed the greatest prowess on the squad thus...
Larry Ward, surprise placer in the Yale meet, will carry Crimson colors in the breaststroke, as will Joe--Fox and Milt Buzby in the freestyle dashes. Only in the 300-yard individual medley, where Verdeur seems certain of holding his title, will there be no local entry...
Gold was off by 60%. The great Alaska Juneau lode mine was closed. But other forms of gold digging throve. Gold dredges nosed along the pay streak in valleys near Fairbanks. And many an Arctic placer miner would go it with bulldozer and sluice box, gambling for a stake through weeks of mud, mosquitoes and midnight...
Harrier Hal May, a consistent Crimson placer this fall, stepped on a nail in the middle of the course, was forced to throw his track shoe on the side of the trail and went ahead with one bare foot to place fourth among the Varsity squad...