Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Conrad, the second of eight children, went to private schools (Albuquerque's Goss Military Institute and New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell), and to college for two years (New Mexico School of Mines). When father Hilton was wiped out by the panic of 1907, he started taking roomers into the family's modest adobe dwelling at $1 a day, and Connie helped him. But it wasn't what young Hilton wanted. He went into politics and, with the help of a well-organized graveyard vote ("the best people in the county"), was elected...
...portion of the fund will be used to refurnish this conference room, and the rest will be used of scholarships for outstanding second and third year law students...
...well-drilled Navy basketball team fought off a second half varsity rally Saturday night to win, 70 to 68, at the Garden. After a slow start-it trailed 36 to 29 at the half-Norm Shepard's squad pulled up to the Midshipmen, but them lost three chances to sew up the game...
...second half, the varsity began to cut through the Navy defense, and at the time led the visitors 65 to 64. During the last 80 seconds, Shepard's squad picked up the ball at join-court three times with one-point deficits, and lost the ball three times on fouls-one a charging call on Rockwell which was loudly disputed by the gallery...
Julie Vietman, Stove Wise, and Chuck Hoeizer led the alumni efforts, Vietman barely nosed out his brother Rone, of the varsity, for a second place in the 100-yard breast stroke and Wise, who anchored the winning 150-yard medley relay, swam in the winning 200-yard free style relay. Hoeizer also swam in both of the alumnl's winning relays...