Word: russe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Smitter tells a story strongly reminiscent of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Says Big Russ, trying to entice his little pal Bennie (the narrator) to the woods and clam beds: "There'd be the smell of new clover hay and cornflowers in the air and by'n'by the fire would get low and go out and you'd see the fireflies . . . and way off somewhere -t'hell 'n' gone over the river-you'd hear a cowbell...
Civilization, if any, in the year 6939, 5,001 years from now, will have the privilege of gazing at newsreels taken last November when Captain Russ Allen '38 and his mates defeated the Elis at Soldiers Field. The Westinghouse Company has sunk a time Capsule containing representative evidence of our contemporary culture 50 feet under the New York World's Fair grounds, and its contents include pictures of Jessie Owens at the Olympics. Howard Hughes' return, President Roosevelt at Gettysburg, and the Harvard-Yale grid contest...
...Stuart, fastest Harlow back, had only the safety man to boat. The pass went just out of reach of that Nassau safety man, and Stuart clutched it, juggled it for a second, as he nestled it in his arms, and crossed the goal line standing up. Russ Allen was called back from the line to boot the ball squarely between the uprights to tie the game and put Harvard football where it belonged...
...Russ Greenhood, captain-elect of the swimming team has been named cheer leader for next fall by the Undergraduate Athletic Council it was announced last night...
Gene Lovett, who pitched the first four innings and Russ Houghton who followed him on the Crimson mound held the Jumbos to seven hits while their teammates were getting six. Four of the enemy hits were for extra bases off the offerings of the Yardling pitchers who were working in place of the absent jack Schwede and Charlie Brackett...