Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death, as it must to all men, came in a bursting bomb to a king of whom most people had never heard. Through London, last fortnight, news finally reached the world that King John Sydney Clunies-Ross IV of the Cocos Islands* had died last August, of shock, following a Japanese air raid...
...private Ross realm embraces a minuscule archipelago (a score or more coral islets), lying in the vastness of the Indian Ocean midway between Australia and Ceylon. The Cocos Islands have belonged to the Ross dynasty ever since John Clunies-Ross I, Scottish skipper of an East Indiaman, settled there with his family in 1827. The Rosses are absolute rulers of their coconut-growing Malay subjects. By royal fiat the Cocos Islands positively admit no immigrants or ever re-admit emigrants...
Cornell C. Keck, stroke; J. P. Wiles, D. R. Pierce, 6; W. F. Hale, 5; E. C. Duval 4; R. J. Miller, 3; P. R. McCormack, 2; W. Packard, bow; A. Brede, cox, Harvard; T. S. Ross, stroke; H. C. Grant 7; H. F. Weber, 6; R. B. Perkins. 5; R. W. Macnamara, 4; T. A. Haymond, 3; J. P. Kettelle, Jr., 2, C. R. Polhemus, how; D. P. S. Paul...
...stern powerhouse, Captain Toby Ross, 7-man Hal Grant, and Howie Weber at 6, kept the Crimson in the running, and when Tech began to fade at the mile and five sixteenths Henley Course mark, it was Coach Haines's more thorough conditioning program that turned the tide for the Crimson...
Varsity: T. S. Ross, stroke and Captain; H. C. Grant, 7; H. F. Weber, 6; R. B. Perkins, 5; R. W. Macnamara, 4; T. A. Haymond, 3; J. D. Kettele, Jr., 2; P. B. Roll, bow; D. P. S. Paul...