Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making the best of what we have, and you are too. You are maybe not in the service from choice but it is all part of being a young man and a member of a human race whose way of life seems to include periodic wars...
...wrecked the Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...
...next Saturday's encounter with Tufts, wartime arch-rival, Mikkola will have the same outfit that notched the opening win from Worcester Tech, 26-31, on September 16. Captain Mark Tuttle, who ran three miles over the rocky Handicap Course in that race after losing his right shoe-spikes, returned to action last week...
Crimson crewmen came closest to bringing home rival shirts in the preliminary event between M.I.T. and Harvard third boats. Finishing 14 seconds behind the Engineers' shell, Bill Allen's eight, coxed by Harold May, lost its race by two lengths. In the Jayvee contest Charlie Loring's Freshman squad trailed by four lengths, and in the Varsity event, John Chandler's boat finished three distances behind...
Highlighting the afternoon was the Jayvee race, in which M.I.T. edged out the Redmen by only two feet., Getting off to a bad start, Cornell soon outdistanced the Crimsonmen and threatened Tech from the half-mark on. Then a beautiful last-minute spurt almost turned the trick, at any rate leaving the Cantabs out of the competition by two and one-half lengths...