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...expressions as a "fast boat' 'and a "slow boat." All dinghios in a particular class are identical in construction, and, consequently, racing laurols go to the real sailor and not to the man who has simply the advantage of a good boat. Many regattas are now run on a round-robin basis, whereby the same skipper never gets the chance to race twice in the same boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Mold A Top Team . . . . . . Without Boats | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...golf team will weekend in Now Haven today and tomorrow, playing Yale, Princeton, and Columbia in the two-day Eastern Intercollegiates. The host two teams in the round-robin matches will go to Atlantic City later this month to play the winners of the Southern Intercollegiates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Begins Inter-Collegiates | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...leagues have been formed on the basis of team records in the pre-examination round-robin competition. The top seven teams are in the National League, while the eight weaker squads compose the American League. Massachusetts Hall has dropped out of the upper circuit because of a shortage of players. All games will be played either at the Indoor Athletic Building or at Homenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Basketball Resumes Monday | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...will be a round-robin competition of two eight-team loops--the National and American. The same halls represented in Yard football will enter squads, with the exception that a team from Massachusetts will be substituted for Wigglesworth of the National League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Quintets to Clash on Monday | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mystery of the Flying Heads | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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