Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short end of an 13 score. During the second quarter, sever, the team slowly closed the gap and toward the end of the period held short one point lead, 26-25. Shortly after the Huskies caught fire. Employing its breakaway plays they scored five wishes in a row and when the half-time buzzer sounded they held a 35-26 lead. After the half, Northeastern steadily Granded its lead by firing shorts into the Basket from all over the court. The crimson, meanwhile, unable to crack the Northeastern defense, resorted without access to shots from the outside, and at close...
...politeness week," and had called all Muscovites together in Red Square to tell them about it. Suddenly, in the midst of his speech, a sneeze was heard. "Who sneezed?" asked the dictator. No one answered. "Very well," said Stalin to Secret Police Chief Beria, "shoot everyone in the first row." When that was done the dictator asked again: "Who sneezed?" No answer. "Shoot everyone in the second row." Finally, when the smell of gunpowder had drifted away a second time, a timid character rose diffidently in the third row. "C-c-c-omrade Stalin," he stammered...
...edge of a Christmas buying season which had been expected to break all records, U.S. retailers last week broke forth in a rash of unseasonal clearance sales. Reason: for three weeks in a row, their dollar volume had fallen below the level of a year ago. To step it up, they marked down prices and bulged the newspapers with ads of eye-popping bargains...
Freshman coach Harvey Love says the best system of teaching men to row is to give them individual as well as mass instruction. During the fall, the Freshmen learned to handle an oar on the Leviathan and later they began going out in the shells. This was only a general indoctrination...
There has been, since the war, a strong move all along Fraternity Row to eliminate the peculiar institution of discrimination so graphically demonstrated by this issue. At Amherst and Williams, two of the country's most highly fraternized colleges, faculty and alumni committees allowed the houses to reopen on a probationary basis only; officials at the former school ruled that chapters whose national constitutions contained discriminatory clauses would have to clean up the constitutions or sever their connections...