Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural Marketing Administration, which was establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto...
Wartime jumbling of classes and graduation times, which made Dave Arnold and Dave Place, members of the class of '44 and '43, co-managers this year, have eliminated the apprenticeship period for next year's men, as they skip assistant managerships entirely...
...Naturally, I'm disappointed. As for the Harvard-Yale game, that's a toss-up, but Yale has more depth which should give them a slight edge," said Skip Stahley, Brown coach and former member of the Harvard coaching staff, during the customary after-game review last Saturday afternoon...
...When Skip said this, he was referring to the 48-yard touchdown run of tailback Don Richards, the margin of Crimson victory, which is still being discussed even though the game is now ancient history...
Smarting with the memory of the 23 to 7 defeat at the hands of the Harlow-men last year, Skip Stahley's Bruins have been pointing all season for the game with the Crimson tomorrow...