Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reluctant ears, and are thus wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...
Third Race. The course was 30 miles, 15 with the wind and 15 against it. Endeavour rounded the halfway mark with a 6½-min. lead. An unfortunate tack by Endeavour, a lucky puff of wind for Rainbow, enabled the Vanderbilt boat first to catch up with Endeavour then to perform the maneuver which yachtsmen call "back-winding." Air currents, forced backwards by Rainbow's sails, destroyed the vacuum on the front side of Endeavour's. Endeavour lost more ground by tacking again, trailed Rainbow across the line...
Perhaps now it is wise to take up a somewhat new tack in this difficult problem of supervising the Freshman. In the past the blame has been put on the adviser because it was felt that the poor Freshman should take no responsibility in this matter and should be utterly dependent on some word from above. But now indeed it appears necessary to inform the Freshman what the true purpose of his adviser is and see if that will not aid in arriving at a better understanding between adviser and advise...
That race will go down in yachting history. Yankee crossed the starting line to windward but Rainbow crept past her on the first tack. A sudden puff of wind tore Yankee's Genoa jib. By the time she had replaced it, Rainbow had increased her lead. When the boats rounded the buoy 15 miles from the start, Rainbow was leading by 1 min. 34 sec. Coming back both set parachute spinnakers and Yankee began to gain. For 15 miles she inched up on Rainbow. A half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast...
...statistics are cold and the same cry from the same voices soon falls on deaf ears. Last week educators tried a new tack when they got many a famed citizen to take up their cause at a "Citizens Conference on the Crisis in Education," sponsored by Ohio State University at Columbus...