Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first real test of the Crimson navy. Much hard work with many time trials has gone far to advance the 1936 shell over its immediate predecessor, but it still remains to be seen whether or not Harvard's first eight will have regained some of the sprint racing punch it lacked so markedly last spring...
Rallying to overcome a five run lead the Freshman baseball team went on to score nine tallies in the last three innings and triumph over Exeter 11-5. Lupe Lupien continued his punch at bat three hits out of five times at bat, including a long home run in the seventh inning with a mate on base. Slim Curtiss in gaining his fourth win of the season allowed nine hits, but he was able to tighten in the pinches and prevent the visitors from scoring after the fifth inning...
Harder to assess, the Commission found, were the spiritual ravages of Depression. Educational and vocational opportunities shrunk together. Hard times struck the nation's young folk with a cruel one-two punch. Last year, in the traditional Home of Free Education, only 60% of the youth of high-school age stayed in school while only 15% beyond high-school age squeezed into college. The rest, thought the Commission's Director Homer Price Rainey, "constitute not only an employment but an education problem...
...plate the Crimson has a potentially strong punch. Ben Prouty returns to left field for his initial appearance of the season. Braman Gibbs is back in his old position, fifth on the batting order...
...Crimson pitchers limit their opponents to a reasonably few runs, the batters will provide enough of the necessary punch...