Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wily lefthander Bill Snow will probably go to the hill. If Snow has to leave, the visitors may get an-another look at Everett Dorr, and the prospects shouldn't frighten them too much. Three weeks ago on Soldiers Field, Dorr succumbed to the wind and cold weather, walking four men in the last of the ninth to hand the Crimson a close 7-6 victory...
...this afternoon, where Eliot and Adams will have one more chance to produce. Since the course this afternoon will be a full mile, instead of the three-quarter mile of the qualifying heats, no predictions are possible as to which of the three crews--Adams, Eliot, and Winthrop--will wind up College champion. Partisans of all three are equally certain of victory...
Bucking a strong wind, Yale's eight raced on even terms with Harvard for more than half of the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles. The Bulldogs, then unable to keep up their high stroke, finally fell behind...
...born in Jefferson, Iowa (pop. 4,000) in November 1901. His father was looked on as something of an eccentric by the neighbors. He built an eight-sided house for his family, on the theory that it would be proof against wind storms, scribbled a new system of logic which Gallup still hopes to edit some day. He was an ardent Bryan man. As a joke, people started calling George "Ted," after Teddy Roosevelt, a nickname that has stuck ever since...
...military band. Perhaps the best of these "straight" numbers was the Suite in E Flat for Military Band, by Gustav Holst, which was played with finesse and showed off to best advantage the Band's excellent brass sonority, as well as the adeptness of its wind section in soft passages. One part of the "Intermezzo" reminded this listener of that hideous monstrosity, the Khatchatourian "Sabre Dance," but after the initial shock had subsided, the "Intermezzo" emerged as the most enjoyable part of the Suite...