Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush down the stretch, the schedule should help the challenging Columbians, who turned in an unusual defensive game against Harvard Saturday night at Cambridge, holding the Crimson to seven field baskets in the Light Blue's 36-18 victory...
Everywhere that there was a big camp going up, there was an Alexandria in the South. In Florida, 15,000 men were throwing up a tent-city at Camp Blanding (for 75,000 soldiers) on a flat stretch of white sand 48 miles by automobile from Jacksonville. Some 3,500 of the workmen poured into Starke (normal population: 1,480), eight miles from the camp. Starke's rents jumped from $19-25 to $50-$60. A waitress paid her boss $5 a week to sleep in a restaurant kitchen. Land around the camp which once sold...
Phil Shutt leads a weak collection of backstrokes, who have failed to take a first the entire season. Other swimmers in this event include Hollis Wyman and Bob Rand. Freestyle distance swimmers can not be credited as more than fair by any stretch of the imagination. Barney Saunders, George Christman, and Art Rominus are filling the bill, with Saunders' 2:18.2 for the two hundred in the M. I. T. meet the best time of the group...
LONDON--German "Big Bertha" guns today flung salvoes of shells into an English coastal town after relentless night assaults by British bombers on an 300-mile stretch of Adolf Hitler's "Invasion front" and his war centers of Bremen and Hanover...
...trouble with his delicate soft game. Lyell, the tennis captain, is one of the many who were comparative beginners in the game of squash as Freshmen. His victory over Tiger Johnny Humes was probably the turning point in the Princeton match. Fast-improving Sophomore Galen Felt and Harold "Stretch" Baker round out the first five, Felt has come a long way since his Middlesex days, and Baker is probably the best natural star on the squad...