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...hard at work for at least a month and should be in first-class shape when the big matches start to roll around in January. The M.I.T. grapplers were flattened last Saturday in the opener to the tune of 33 to 3, but Tufts is apt to present much sturdier opposition to the injured Crimson this Saturday...
...much in salutation to the memory of England's well-loved "Old Girl" (scrapped in 1935) as in greeting to her namesake, 2,000 welcomers hallooed, waved, blew whistles, made comparisons. They found the new Mauretania a sturdier but less speedy version of the old, nearly two knots slower (average speed: 20.7 knots); less roomy (1,300 passengers); 13 feet shorter (length overall: 722 feet), but 4,000 tons heavier. Built for comfort, she will never duplicate the speed record of the "Old Girl," who held the mythical Blue Riband 22 years, until Germany's Bremen took...
Squash tennis and squash racquets are played on the same size court, are pretty much the same game, a foreshortened variety of racquets with not so much breakage. Courts can be built for as low as $3,000. Squash racquets is played with a shorter, sturdier variety of racquets bat. The ball looks about like a handball but is lighter...
...perfect in posture and muscular activity; today the figure is nearer 100. His energies have extended beyond the scope of the College and into the training of boys in their formative years through reports and athletic programs sent back; to various preparatory schools. That Harvard can boast today a sturdier and more vigorous group of men is in no small measure directly the result of his personal efforts...
MEMORY OF YOUTH-Vilhelm Moberg -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A sturdier Swedish Little Man, What Now? about a successful Stockholm magazine editor, turned sour on city life, who muses for 322 of the novel's 405 pages on his frustrated but retrospectively happy peasant youth...