Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams match today is rated a tossup. Long-time squash and tennis star Dick-Squires leads a depth-laden Ephman squad. Behind him are several outstanding sophomores, who may give the team a depth which may equal the Crimson...
...strict believer in hard work," explains tennis and squash coach Jack Barnaby, "but I'm also a strong believer in crossed fingers. It makes me think I'm really working hard." Barnaby's chief creed is that "the better team usually wins," but nevertheless he gives luck a good deal of credit for athletic success...
...professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within a year Benson had his master's degree, and went back to run the family farm (now owned by a brother...
...Come Out of This." Thorpe tried his hand at golf (low 80s), bowling (over 200), was proficient at hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle shooting, squash, handball and horsemanship. He was even pretty good with bow & arrow. But two years after he hung up his cleats, a reporter discovered him working with a pick & shovel for $4 a day. Jim's fondness for firewater had helped to get him in the fix. Ever a happy optimist Jim figured, "I'll come out of this, and I'll do some saving when I do." Ten years later-after...
Bizarre cases of cataplexy rounded up by Dr. Levin: ¶A man who had attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...