Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Canal, last week, the U. S. Battle Fleet held its Winter maneuvers. The grey, lowering ships formed precise patterns on the rolling waters. Blue-coated, brass-buttoned tacticians directed and studied these patterns. Now the vessels drove ahead in files, now they spread out in phalanges. Twenty airplanes were catapulted from the decks, droned ahead to find the "enemy." They returned to report; the patterns were changed. Certain formations meant probable success, others probable disaster. Smoke billowed from funnels, gigantic guns stirred in their turrets, officers peered through their binoculars, made marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent...
This meet will be the first test of Farrell's material on the boards, and will give a basis for predicting the winter season. Many new runners will have an opportunity to gain valuable experience in indoor racing...
Although work on the winter track squad will be confined for the most part to short workouts during the midyear examination period, time trials in all events will be run off this afternoon. According to the schedule of track practice, time trials are held every Saturday afternoon throughout the year except on days when meets are scheduled, thus enabling Coach E. L. Farrell to check up on the improvement of various members of the squad as the season progresses...
Nine hundred Freshmen have elected 14 varieties of winter sports, compared to 852 last year, according to a report made public yesterday at Wadsworth House...
...represented Oxford in various sports against Cambridge. In other University and College activities, the Rhodes Scholars have taken and are taking a prominent part. For example, the O. U. D. S. have broken a precedent by making an American Rhodes Scholar, an undergraduate resident in college, producer of the Winter Play, "Othello". The names of Rhodes Scholars may be seen in the roster of many clubs and societies in which they are active and prominent. The success of the group as a whole augurs well for the future. Time out to be allowed by their critics. The historians...