Word: techs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youngsters on the floor struck up a song: I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech. The others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty...
...swank Bar Harbor he married Laura Jay Wurts, daughter of Alexander Jay Wurts, Carnegie Tech professor and Westinghouse inventor, and great-great-great granddaughter of John Jay (1745-1829), the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Wiped out in the Bull Market Crash and "fed up to the chin with the Depression and the miasma that was enveloping Washington," Galloper Chandler in 1931 took his wife and two small daughters and galloped off to Europe. A student of Naziism since 1927, he was received ten years later at Nuremberg by the most successful man in the world...
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Junior Varsity and Freshmen will also run over the Charles River course. The race between the Jayvees, Cornell, and Syracuse should line up as a good one. Both the Crimson and Big Red have beaten Navy. With Tech's powerful Freshmen out of the picture, Harvey Love's Yardlings may win the first race when they face yearling eights from all three colleges. The Freshmen row at 5 o'clock and the Jayvees fifteen minutes later...
...year's Ithacan crew. Notoriously late starters, and in addition riddled by sickness this year, the Cornell crew has so far this spring rowed two losing races, one to Navy, which last week chased Captain Sherm Gray's boat across the finish line, and one to Syracuse, victor over Tech last Saturday by the narrowest of margins...