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...Virginia-born Hugh Scott, a Navy commander during the war, saw service in Iceland, Europe and the Pacific, also did a wartime stint as an ordinary seaman on a merchant marine tanker. He was defeated for re-election in 1944, after rousing Democrats to cries of "snobbery" and angering many of his own party with his definition of Republicans: "We are the best stock. We are the people who represent the real grit, brains and backbone of America...
...month still remains before the four-mile stint against Yale on June 25, but that time will definitely not be so easy for the oarsmen. As if practicing for the longest race in American rowing were not enough to worry about, the squad must also fit in practice for the 2000 meter Olympic trials the following week...
Brainard completed the 75-yard stint, which required almost a minute and a half, but when he rose to the surface for air he was unable to breathe, and sank to the bottom unconscious. Henry S. Birdseye '50, loser of the bet, rushed for aid from a pool supervisor, who dove in to recover the victim...
...second revival of the Wake came about when Hawkes, a member of the original 1944 staff, returned to College from a stint with the American Field Service and met Lawrence, who had joined the publication after Hawkes had left. With Rogers, they saw the chance to re-publish the Wake as a magazine furnishing a non-commercial outlet for good, unknown writers whose work "has passed the experimental stage...
...Varsity's time was several seconds behind their Princeton stint, but the course--the same that will be rowed tomorrow--was upstream over the swiftly-running Charles, with a slight following wind roughing up the water...