Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After months of shuffling aur reshuffling, Freshman crew menter Harvey Love finally came up this week with boatings for tomorrow's '51 curtain raiser. But even at this late stage nothing can be considered definite, judging from the tempo of past changes in the Yardling shells...
...Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded in the stately Times...
...symphonies. CBS won by a nose, with a telecast of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was an interesting performance: Maestro Eugene Ormandy, unwarily popping a peppermint into his mouth in midpassage; the camera ogling the girl members of the orchestra. But for most televiewers it was just a curtain raiser for Toscanini, half an hour later...
...dull curtain raiser to the Varsity hockey game at the Arena Saturday night, the Crimson Jayvee skaters bowed to Yale, 4 to 8. The Elis caught the lead in the first period and were never really investment...
...curtain raiser before the Varsity contest, Moe Berg's court charges rallied in the second half, but fell short of the mark and bowed, 44 to 40, in a sloppy but enthusiastic battle. Once again Ed Smith led the scoring parade with 17 points. The winners boasted a 29 to 18 halftime bulge...