Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan project has attracted attention in other states. In New York, a bill to establish a "higher education assistance corporation" has administration approval. Groups in Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut have expressed interest in seeking similar legislation in these states...
...pleasant surprise of the meet, as he finished sixth in the hurdles, only a step out of the scoring. He had previously won his first heat, his quarterfinal heat, and finished third in the first semifinal. In the second, he came in a step behind Bob Mairs of Rhode Island...
When he was 16, Ferdinand Demara ran away from his home in Lawrence, Mass. to join the Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, stayed several years under monastic rule. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army, soon went over the hill, joined the Navy, became a medical corpsman. His first big bull-throwing exhibition came after he went over the hill again and turned up at the Trappist monastery near Louisville, Ky. claiming to be one Robert L. French, Ph.D. As in his later exploits, Demara had picked his identity from a university catalogue, had in some mysterious way assembled...
...team opened the season by scoring 1404 in an easy win over Worcester. This score is within two points of the Harvard varsity record. Since then the team has had varying fortunes beating Boston College, Rhode Island, and Trinity but losing to Boston University, University of Connecticut, and Providence College...
...varsity rifle team, in its first home match last Saturday, placed second in a triangle meet against Pennsylvania and the University of Rhode Island. Penn won with a score of 1383, followed by the Crimson's 1376 and Rhode Island...