Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-two seems to be the key to Crimson victories. In Saturday's race it was not until stroke Colton Wagner raised the beat to 32 that the Crimson pulled ahead, and in last Monday's race Harvard did not step out in front until Wag lowered the stroke from...
...first half mile of Saturday's main event, the varsities of Harvard, Tech, and Princeton skimmed into a slight head wind prow for prow. Up until the Harvard Bridge Wagner was understroking the opposition and keeping up with them, but soon after Wag's boat got swinging at the payoff number, and the race was all over. With half a mile to go the Varsity shot the beat up to 34 for practice and went over the line at 37 in 9:22.8. Princeton was timed exactly five seconds later, and Tech finished eleven seconds behind the Tigers...
...Hegel can't persuade me that a syllogism can wag its tail...
...placid Dutchmen found something to laugh at in everything. The day after all newspapers were instructed not to report that anything except cows were hit by British bombs, a wag wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
...Jell-O script is turned out by a 33-year-old wag named Bill Morrow, whose salary is $1,500 a week, and his assistant, Eddie Beloin, who makes $560 less. Although the gags are theirs. Benny has a lot to do with shaping up the pro gram. Each Monday he gets together with his writers either in the bedroom of his 15-room French-Colonial mansion in Beverly Hills or in his Paramount dressing room to talk over his coming show. With Benny's secretary Harry Baldwin furiously taking notes, the show is roughed out on Monday, worked...