Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale track meets for many years back--a fluctuating red line for the Crimson and a blue one for the Elis. And although for the last two years the lines have been nearly parallel, with the Blue on top, this year the Crimson indicator may well take a sharp turn upward if Jaakko Mikkola's track team fulfills the extraordinary promise it shows at this early date...
...Freshmen pucksters enter their first major contest when they face-off with the strong Princeton first-year sextet in the Boston Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Victims of an 8 to 0 lacing at the hands of the strong Exeter team, the Yardlings will be out to turn the tables against the favored Tiger cubs...
...there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years, six times as many heroes discover their spirits of adventure to be aroused by the challenge of geographical exploration. Nor is the apparent explanation that Harvard men have unusually broad cultural interests and turn naturally to the extraordinary...
...which can be geared to a sewing machine to keep the operator cool. > A motor which can be geared to the steering wheel of an automobile, to help the driver turn the wheel when parking...
...Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful after a month of drill & discipline. Other military potentials of CCC: the permanent, continuously up-to-date list of CCC names kept at the Army's nine Corps Area headquarters; a reservoir of air corps mechanics...