Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanics of existence; they could not listen to the rumblings of a shaking empire. It was of more immediate interest that seven lean years had slashed the average weight of the Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
...Before eleven weird, tanklike "snowmobiles," a group of men snapped to attention. They listened as Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...
Harvard's suicide rate has reached one each week, Harvardmen are a dying race, the old school tie is vanishing, and something's got to be done. That's the thesis of Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, who graduated from the Med School in 1920, as expounded in a letter to the Alumni Bulletin published this week...
Marcell Smith and Will Cochran who are heading the club, propose to open its cabin in Pinkham Notch and revive the Harvard Race weekend. With accommodations for more than 30 people, the cabin provides convenient headquarters for Harvard skiers...
Although they stuck close to the Big Green during the first period, Captain Bill Ayres and his teammates were clearly no match for the fast skating and solid checking of the Hanover aggregation. Time and time again a Crimson forward would break away with the puck, and race unsupported down the ice, only to lose it as the Dartmouth defensemen combined to eliminate him before he could get a shot...