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Word: squashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilson prepared for Harvard at St. Mark's School where he competed in football, tennis, and soccer. He is 20 years of age, weighs 155 pounds, and stands six feet tall. He was captain of his Freshmen tennis team and also won numerals in Freshman squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lettermen Elect Orme Wilson To Captain 1942 Tennis Team | 5/28/1941 | See Source »

Chairman of the Student Council, captain of the squash team, and president of the Council of Government Concentrators, the handsome Senior is shown in every phase of his life from doing pushups in his underwear before breakfast to admiring the state of his wardrobe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Life" Features Marvin As "Joe College" of Harvard | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

...uniform he is splendid. In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Britannia Rules the Waves | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Barnaby, who also coaches Varsity squash, is getting use to building entirely new teams. His squash team, although gutted by the loss of its first six men through graduation, ended up the season undefeated in intercollegiate competition. Practically the same situation is present in tennis this year with the first six men lost by graduation...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/26/1941 | See Source »

Whether Barnaby can repeat his squash record with the tennis team is yet to be seen. The netmen will be seriously handicapped by the loss of such stars as Burt, Palfrey, and Giikey. The only returning lettermen are Captain Sonny Lyell, Orme Wilson, and Homer Peobdy, who all gained the distinction by playing doubles against Yale last spring...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/26/1941 | See Source »

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