Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seems that Gold and his friend John R. Hutchison, Jr. '47 were bot to the tune of $15 that they couldn't drink seven quarts for beer in seven hours. Only condition of the "sporting preposition" was that the brew would have to stay down until all seven quarts were consumed...
...Broken Wheel. At the funeral a children's choir sang Thomas Masaryk's favorite folk song, a simple ballad with a haunting tune, Ach Synku, Synku...
...running for governor and had promised to make her the "first lady of Alabama" afterwards. She didn't even object to his campaign methods: he traveled to the "crossroads, the branch-heads and the brush arbors" with a hillbilly band, called on it to strike up a tune called "Pucker up, Honey, Jim Folsom's Comin'," and then galumphed through crowds kissing all the women...
...next problem was money. Pyke solved it by studying the stockmarket, making a carefully calculated killing. This enabled him, in turn, to tackle the problem of educating his son. Since he could find no school in tune with his own ideas, he founded the Malting House School at Cambridge, a fabulous institution (annual cost per student: $4,000) where children aged four to ten were taught laboratory physics and chemistry before they could read or write. Pyke went back to the stockmarket for additional funds, but this time the professionals ganged...
Trailing 5 to 4 in each of the first two events Rene Peroy's Varsity fencers came through again in the saber department and slashed MIT's swordsmen to the tune of 15 to 12 last night at the Blockhouse. In the afternoon the Freshmen toppled Worcester Academy...