Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marines at Quantico, Va., will be host to over 40 national collegiate track teams and several outstanding amateur athletes in a giant track meet which should turn out to be a preliminary Olympic tryout. The Crimson squad will spend its vacation week as guests of the Marines and will enter the events "mainly for practice," Captain Art Siler said last night. No team scores will be made, although there will be individual medals awarded...
...push gets them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...
...introduces the Yardlings to the simple managerial tasks, acquainting them with the workings of the system, and gradually building them up to the full responsibility of a manager. The competition also helps to get the numerous managerial jobs done and sorts out the capable men. The winner of this tryout takes over as freshman manager for the Yale game and receives his numerals...
...sophomore competition, anyone is eligible to compete except in football, where only the top men from the previous year's freshman competition are eligible. This tryout places increased responsibility on the candidates to ready the winners for the three top managing posts...
...claims that one of his current students, Marilyn Monroe, will some day amaze skeptics with her dramatic range. Daughter Susie got little formal help from him ("I don't take students younger than 18"), surprised him with her theatrical know-how when he saw the out-of-town tryout. Says Susie: "I'd been picking things up from him by osmosis...