Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final race, the light-weights had to win four other races, almost all of them difficult, against some of the best American and English crews who didn't have to maintain a 150-pound average...
...Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club had an impressive list of triumphs to its credit. With an average weight of 12 stone 8--176 pounds--the RAF men had an immediate 27-pound advantage a man. They had defeated Clare College of Cambridge, the Isis Boat Club of Oxford, and the Crowland Rowing Club handily...
...sort of thing you read about in psychological novels. Morris was a young man out of the West who came to Harvard because he wanted to be a writer, and the Cambridge community had spawned its share of the literati--from T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to Conrad Aiken. The spectrum appeared to be wide enough for Morris--hero of the high school avant-garde. And he brought plenty of yellow paper with...
...strongest first teams in recent years will be a group of returning starters, led by captain and all-Ivy left tackle Bob Shaunessy and left halfback Chet Boulris, who was named to the second all-Ivy team at that position. Shaunessy's top-notch complement at right tackle, 220-pound Pete Briggs, right guard veteran Hal Anderson, and center Bob Foster, the big "surprise" on last years seventh place team, will be the other returning linemen...
...rickety, fascinatingly debauched religion editor: "Caroline could not help remembering the feelings she had had about him at the other party . . . and as his eyes met hers she realized he was thinking about it too. For an instant the spark arose between them again, and her heart began to pound. She was filled with a sweetness mixed with sadness. Mike leaned down and kissed her very lightly on the lips. 'Merry Christmas,' he said softly...