Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carnegie Tech itself had an even more impressive record: it hadn't won a game since 1942 (it suspended football in 1944 and 1945). Wild Bill's squad of hard-studying engineers didn't get out of classes until 4:30. That made it nearly 5:30 before they were in uniform and on the practice field, and by then it was getting dark. Under Tech's simon-pure program, football players didn't even get pin money from the school. Worse still, rigid entrance exams kept out boys who were fast on their feet...
...Boswell's main, lifelong concern was always Dr. Johnson. Among the newly discovered pages of the Life is the record of his first impression of the Doctor: "... A man of most dreadful appearance . . . troubled with sore eyes, the palsy, and the King's evil [scrofula]." By 1772, nine years later, the new papers show, Boswell was writing Garrick that he was "determined" to write Johnson's life. He even interviewed a member of Johnson's household as to the Doctor's "amorous propensities...
Haines came to this country in 1911 after establishing a famous record as an oarsman in England. He started as a coach at the Union Boat Club in Boston, but transferred to Harvard in 1915, where he remained until accepting the position of head coach at MIT in 1923. His 1916 Crimson crow once set a four-mile record of 20 minutes and two seconds...
Snow mixed with rain and near-freezing temperatures is today predicted to end the record-length Indian summer which New England has been enjoying...
...scheduled 11 evening and one matinee performances will constitute a record for dramatic longevity, according to Jerry Kilty, president of the HTW. He stated last night that over $200 worth of subscriptions had already come in through the mail. He implied that the success of the play should equal that of the Harvard Dramatic Club's recent production, Amphitryon...