Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wade of Cambridge should do close to 10 seconds in the double furlong, and Goodwillie, former Cornell star now an Oxonian, should be formidable in the furlong...
Also awarded last week were prizes for the college art currently on exhibition in Manhattan. Winners included: oil painting, Jean Elizabeth Wade of Yale; watercolor, C. E. Hewitt of Princeton; drypoint, Mildred Shute of Kentucky; sculpture, Robert Koepnick of Dayton Art Institute...
From Evanston, Ill., husky Wade ("Red") Woodworth had motored all the last two nights to get to Albany in time, towing his racing boat on a trailer. He had spent another night fitting out his boat-had only two hours sleep between Tuesday and Friday. Now he partly knelt, partly sat on the cushions in his bucking little ship, his red hair standing up in a crest, watching the curves of the narrow upper river between its marshy banks. Fourteenth at the start, he soon was racing for the lead with Ben Rhymer who lives beside the Hudson at Kingston...
...distinguishable from their contemporaries at other inland institutions. They paint DUKE on their slickers, have "dates" with the coeds, occasionally buy a fruit jar of corn liquor. They talk hopefully of their teams (their baseball team beat Cornell last month; they are proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life?Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House, etc. etc.?some of them with...
Fortnight ago their dogs held a jaguar at bay on the far side of a river. Animal catchers Alexander Siemel and David Newell started to wade to the dogs. An alligator seized Siemel's foot, lacerating it so badly that, though he insisted on finishing that hunt, he had to be shipped by dugout to the nearest hospital, 250 miles away at Corumba. Last week he was reported improving, should rejoin the expedition this week...