Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darcey Cup fell to Joseph L. Eldredge '45 3G.S.D., who beat out a field of three senior scullers in the climax event of Blake Dennison's Singles Regatta Friday afternoon...
...Nominated capable Dr. John L. Lewis Jr., unobtrusive son of the United Mine Workers' obtrusive John L., for appointment as senior assistant surgeon in the U.S. Public Health Service...
...Griffin, Ga., last week, a lanky high-school senior struck out his 18th batter in seven innings, and clinched the ballgame, 6-4. Pitcher Hugh Frank Radcliffe, 19, was pitching the kind of ball that had already brought major-league scouts to his doorstep. It was his fourth victory in four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast...
...Losses. Detective Wittenberg, a member of "New York's Finest" since 1941, is the finest U.S. amateur wrestler in & out of uniform. Last month he became the first man ever to win seven National A.A.U. senior wrestling titles. He is also the best U.S. bet to win the heavyweight Olympic wrestling event this summer in London (toughest competitors: the Turks and Swedes...
...Naughty Sun. In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities." Though "relatively humble" people, Henry and Annette lived and traveled with as many as 39 servants (senior officials carried a train of more than 100). They raised four children in a swampy wasteland teeming with wild pigs, buffalo, cobras, scorpions, fleas, flies and ("most abundantly") leeches. Fever and dysentery were everyday matters-trifles compared with the cholera which, by slow degrees, killed their beautiful youngest child...