Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
Apparently inspired by the Varsity's exploits, Coach Al McCoy's Jayvee squad finished its season last week with a 40 to 36 win over the B.U. Squad Saturday and a 55 to 34 thrashing of Milton Academy last Wednesday. The victory at Milton was the eleventh in a row for the team, giving it a season record of eleven and three; three of these games were won by one-point margins...
...trade given to wackiness and jeering illiteracy, Art French more than held his own. Sir Thomas Beecham, then conducting the Seattle Symphony, tangled with him when French started clicking pictures from a front-row seat. Terrible-tempered Sir Thomas stopped the orchestra, turned on French. "You go home," he barked. French went; he had his picture. He sassed Rumania's Queen Marie when she asked him: "Don't you ever shave?" Retorted French: "Say, I been following you for the last coupla days at 60 miles an hour. When d'ja think I'd have time...
...spring this morning with the announcement by the H.A.A. of the spring sports schedule for Crimson Varsity and Junior Varsity teams. Baseball leads the list with thirteen games, including two with Yale, while Jaakko Mikkola's track team is entered in five meets, Tom Bolles' Varsity crew will row in three regattas...
...UNRRA's help is to end with 1946. The threat of hunger formed the background of disquieting political developments. Democratic forces lost strength when the middle-of-the-road Action Party flew apart in a row between its right wing and moderates. Off went former Premier Ferruccio Parri to form a new middle-class group...