Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Improved team work on the lacrosse team netted it a 14-4 victory over Tufts yesterday on Cousens Field, Medford. The Crimson success was due more specifically to finding holes through the opposite goalies and to a splendid passing defense...
...must not, of course, be blind to certain objections. First, swimming is an individual sport, depending not on team play so much as on individual prowess. Secondly, the team at present is riding on the crest of a wave of success, and the trough of the wave must not be forgotten in the exhilaration of the moment. And on the basis of the ranking of swimming in other colleges, reluctance on the part of Harvard to change its status would not be at all unreasonable...
Nevertheless, in spite of these objections, it seems clear that swimming is here to stay, and even a measure of this year's enthusiasm on the part of the student body and outside rooters would be sufficient to assure its success as a major sport. Consequently it is to be hoped that the promotion will be given by the authorities in charge...
...Negro related, Colonel Green dropped out of politics except to return to Terrell to vote in each Presidential election. Said "Gooseneck Bill" McDonald of himself: "I quit being a Republican in 1928." When hearings moved to Miami last week, testimony showed that Floridians had tried without success to make the Colonel a Floridian. Said Colonel Green's onetime Star Island neighbor, Webb Jay: "He said he wouldn't consider transferring his domicile...
Speaking of commodities in general and copper and steel in particular, President Roosevelt declared last fortnight that prices were entirely too high (TIME, April 12). As an experiment in talking down inflation, the President's pronouncement had by last week proved a notable success. His words touched off a world-wide break in commodities which left copper 1½? below its 17? -per-lb. high, lead off 1¼? (high: 7¾? per lb.), rubber off nearly 3#162; (high: 27#162; per lb.), wheat off 6#162; (high: $1.45). Most other staples tumbled proportionately, while the stockmarket took...