Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one man on the College team, Haddon Tomes, has had much practice in the sport. The other members of the squad--Mike Ward, the retiring squash captain; Bill Wister, the squash captain-elect; Jim Moseley; and Nick Luddington--are rather inexperienced...
Playing for the varsity will be squash stars, Hadden Tomes, Mike Ward, and Bill Wister. Only Tomes has had any experience in the 700 year old sport...
...team has fired on a new range in the squash courts since last fall...
First sign of agriculture was squash seeds. Then came corn, the staff of Mexican life. The ears were only two or three inches long, and the kernels were covered with individual husks. Some cobs showed tooth marks; they had apparently been eaten as modern people eat sweet corn. MacNeish estimates that agriculture provided about 4% of the food at this period (4,000 years ago). The rest were wild plants and animals, which were hunted with the atlatl or spear-throwing stick...
...FRESHMAN SQUASH...