Word: websters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free Style: won by Pulleyn (Y); second, Stubbs (H); third Webster (H). Time...
...Relay: won by Yale (no names mentioned); second Harvard (Emerson, Whoriskey, Stubbs, Webster). Time...
Other Freshmen who will journey to New Haven are Hal Stubbs, Frank Webster, Brad Patterson, Fred Whoriskey, Jay Ach, Hal Dearing, Bob Emerson, Jack Germain, Johnny Murphy, Bill Stires, John Allyn, and Manager Kiely...
...letters who had perhaps mellowed too young and been boyish too long and whom his fierce contemporary, Fenimore Cooper, then regarded as something of a humbug. Sympathetic Biographer Bowers says his reports on the corrupt and precarious Spanish court made good reading for Secretaries of State Webster and Calhoun. But there is a hint of tragicomedy in the fact that Irving often got no replies, especially to his expense accounts, and that finally his stately letter of resignation was not even acknowledged for eight months...
...North and the South in 1850 were tired and exhausted with the heat of the great debate that had killed Calhoun, and sent Clay and Webster to their death-beds. The Compromise had been passed, and the two great empires within an empire went to their corners to bind up their wounds. The delicious calm and relaxation that follows struggle had enveloped them. The conciliatory spirit of Clay, that sprang from the open meadows and wooded streams of the Blue Grass of Kentucky, had prevailed over both the hot blood of South Carolina and the brawling abolitionism of the North...