Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholarships, but the ballpark is still in the talking stage, and the "better jobs" did not materialize. Coach César Faz had another problem. Over the fall and winter all but one of his boys passed the Little League age limit of twelve, and he had to recruit a whole new team. But love of baseball, and the prospect of a trip to los Estados Unidos if they were good enough, served to draw the makings of another fine team. Last week in Williamsport, Pa., Monterrey was back for a crack at another World Series...
...ranks of public officials on record against the dangers of heavy cigarette smoking won a noted recruit in New York's Health Commissioner Herman E. Hilleboe. Granting there is no proof that smoking is the only cause of lung cancer, Dr. Hilleboe declared that several recent studies "give irrefutable evidence that the long-range effects of cigarette smoking are harmful for many people...
...growing difference between his debts and his income, there were frowns from his superiors because of his drinking, and the chance of getting promoted from first lieutenant to captain seemed slim indeed. Then he met a fast-talking World War I pilot who had come to Pensacola to recruit volunteers for General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. Boyington instantly sensed that it was time to be going somewhere. Within days he had resigned from the Marine Corps and was organizing a farewell drunk before leaving for Burma...
...second cruise will be headed as before by Albert Bigelow '29. Huntington is staying behind to recruit three additional crew members for a possible third voyage. James Peck of New York is replacing Huntington...
...Hawkins Day. It seems that thirteen new bachelors were needed to participate in the annual race, and that someone in Dogpatch who could read saw in a newspaper that Harvard was awarding 2000 bachelors' degrees. Moonbeam McSwine, one of the more picturesque local characters, was dispatched to Cambridge to recruit the necessary bachelors. She met with surprisingly little resistance...