Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bowdoin, this is the season's opener, and they will be getting their feet wet against a Crimson sextet that traditionally has had little trouble disposing of them. Last year's Harvard team was the worst here in eleven years, but the skaters still mangled Bowdoin...
...22nd time in the last 23 seasons. Navy and Princeton lost nothing from the two teams that tied Harvard for third in the Eastern Swimming League last year, while Army and Dartmouth are both improved. If Harvard's sophomore freestylers don't come through, it could be a long wet season...
When the power expired, so did our national and international Tele printer operations, just then gearing to send out some 120 story queries to bureaus around the world. The communications staff turned to the telephone, which, thanks to 24 wet-cell stand-by batteries, worked. First call was to Tokyo, where, with a 14-hour time lead, the week was well under way. Tokyo staffers copied the telephone queries for the bureau as well as those for relay to Hong Kong, Manila and other Far Eastern news centers. Calls to Paris, Bonn and London followed...
Yale plays the same kind of game that Brown does, with long passes and rough today contact. But Yale will not have the advantage of a wet field, and Harvard's short-passing game should regain the crispness it showed against Dartmouth and Princeton...
...College's two substations and connects with the main current line from the Cambridge Power and Light Company, where Harvard buys all its electricity. Murphy said the system is a recent innovation which, at this time, services only a section of the University. The other two emergency sources are wet and dry-cell batteries...