Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year more men came out for the team than for many years past. These men had fine natural ability. If they had had a coach, they would have developed into a well-rounded team, since there were good men for all the apparatus. Having no coach, they had to train themselves practicing their old "stunts" and picking up a few new ones. When they met well coached teams, they were ignominiously defeated. Amherst beat them...
...primary object of the climb, which was led by Hassler Whitney, assistant professor of Mathematics, was to train new men in rope and rock technique. C. Stacy French, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biochemistry in the Medical School, accompanied the group. Among those who made the trip besides Whitney and French, were: Bishop, Cobb, Geist, Hinton, Marvin, Meigs, Notman, Overton, Sachs, and Smith...
Although elated over the fact that a Harvard man had dared to start, track coach Jaakko Mikkola said last night: "I would not advise any college student to try to run the B.A.A. Marathon, because he has not sufficient time to train...
Diminutive little Assemblyman Francis X. Coyne of Dorchester, sponsor of a bill to tax the real estate of Universities which hire communists or fascists, was at the station to greet the actress as she get off the train in orchids and gray foxes
...dance at the point of a gun. After the divorce Harry French went through a kind of proletarian purgatory: jobs slipped through his fingers, money went for liquor, strikes got him in trouble, his daughters by his second wife died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights and two passenger trains were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar...