Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bermuda Cup champion Crimson rugby team got back on the winning trail with vengeance yesterday, as it completely outclassed M.I.T., 22 to 0, reversing last fall's 14 to 0 loss to the Engineers. This gives the Crimson a season record of five wins and one tie, gained by the New York Rugby Club last Saturday...
Unfortunately for Happy, there were a couple of ghosts plaguing his trail, along with Combs. Although he is endorsed by the state A.F.L. and the Louisville C.I.O. Council, Happy's labor record does not look good to Washington C.I.O. headquarters, which has sent a man into Kentucky to try to get the labor leaders to rescind their endorsement. Then there is the Negro problem: in 1948 Happy's newspaper, the Woodford Sun, endorsed Strom Thurmond for the presidency. Happy blames his editor for the endorsement and invokes the shade of Jackie Robinson ("I put him in business") with...
When the men performed, the U.S. show turned dull. Despite a record-breaking dash down the dangerous Nose Dive trail by Skeeter Werner's 19-year-old kid brother, Buddy, no American placed better than fifth in the combined scoring. Ahead of the U.S. entrants were such seasoned stars as Austria's Andreas Molterer, Japan's Chiharu Igaya (now a Dartmouth undergraduate) and France's Adrien Duvillard. Dartmouth Alumni Ralph Miller and Brooks Dodge finished fifth and seventh, and to fill out the eight-man U.S. Olympic team, the committee had to reach far back into...
...bull? One is reminded of Alam and Alad, the two bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other on the left of the gate of the temple, of Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End ... in the book of Revelation. " Only Survivor. The astrological trail, says Moran, leads to Chaldea, "the home of astrology par excellence." But at that point, the scholar runs into trouble: much of the evidence there might have been of the astrological origin of the alphabet has long since perished. Where to turn next? "Chinese culture alone . . . has survived with...
...Sunday Dane and Thomas placed 19th and 21st, respectively, out of 40 competitors in the Eastern Downhill Championships on the Wildcat trail. The two raced over the near perfect condition of light fluff on top of hard packed powder...