Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity are precarious favorites, the jayvees are even more so. Although they also are unbeaten to date, their wins have been by hairbreadth margins, and Navy, Penn, or Princeton may well turn the tables on them today. Yale's second boat is also reputedly hot; two weeks ago it beat its Navy counter part by more than two lengths, while Harvard was only able to squeeze out a deck-length win over the same Middle combination...
...instance, at the beginning of each stroke, the oarsman must flip his writs to turn the oar so that it enters the water absolutely perpendicularly. The slightest variation from a 90 degree angle will cause the oar to "knife in" and dig too deeply into the water. When this happens, the handle of the oar is apt to come up suddenly and hit the unsuspecting rower in the stomach, often lifting him unceremoniously out of the boat and depositing him in the river...
...turn, many undergraduates had to change their fields last spring. According to administration sources, the measure was primarily an economy move. "Harvard cannot hope to have a strong departments in everything," a highranking University official said at the time...
Like Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...
...Thursday at 9 a.m. and works for 1 6 hours. At bedtime, he has almost finished five daily Blondie strips. A neat, fast worker, he rarely changes a line. Even with two assistants, it takes Young two more days to finish the first five strips, do a sixth, and turn out a Sun day Blondie page and a short Sunday strip called Colonel Potterby and the Duchess. He usually spends a couple of days swim ming, woodworking and loafing before he puts in two more days personally answer ing his fan mail (he sends every fan a card cartoon, often...