Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the last place Tiger Quintet completely upset the pregame dope by trouncing the apparently over confident league leading Dartmouth Indians Monday, the basketball title race was once more thrown open. Both Harvard and Pennsylvania are mathematically conceded a chance of ticing the Big Green for the lead, while the Crimson by winning all its remaining encounters can pass the Indians and grab off the title...
...score of 45 to 30. Harvard beat the Quakers 57 to 18. Princeton defeated Dartmouth 49 to 26, while the Crimson crushed the Indians by a 53 to 22 score. Comparative scores show a lot in swimming because most mormen turn in pretty nearly the same times every race. They can usually be depended on to take the same places they've been taking...
...their jobs, pilots gave in, still uneasily use the field. Before last session's Congress Vermont's Republican Representative Charles A. Plumley thundered, "Washington-Hoover Airport is . . . both a public menace and a national disgrace." Since 1928 a total of 49 possible airports, from marsh lands to race tracks, have been examined, but so far none has been found that is both politically and aeronautically safe. Meantime, various committees and the District Airport Commission continue a ten-year search to solve a problem "lousy with experts and options...
...world like T. S. Eliot's Wasteland-an end-of-the-world world where "in the muttering heat, the race of pygmies runs, worm's spawn beginning in the worm's shape, ending with the worm, pullulating, multiplying, and festering, conglomerating their littleness, spreading and aggrandizing it under the huge sun, joining together in a love that is the joining of the cloven maggot, engendering little hopes, little fears, throwing up small sprays of dust, spray by spray, till they have made a universe of dust." In vigorous poetic passages like this, I Live Under a Black...
Casey Jones (by Robert Ardrey; pro duced by The Group Theatre). The Sceneryless-Theatne Movement (Julius Caesar, The Cradle Will Rock, Our Toun) got a smack on the jaw last Saturday when the curtain went up on Casey Jones. There, covering the whole stage and appearing to race through the night, stretched a life-sized, glinting locomotive. The audience let loose a tornado of applause. But the rest of Casey Jones, instead of roaring straight ahead, backed in and out of rail road yards, got shunted off on sidings...