Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the heavies and lightweights were forced to cancel two-thirds of the normal number of days spent on the river before vacation. The result of the late winter ice, the fifteen extra days in the tank have set the crews two weeks behind the majority of their opponents...
...heavyweights have gained back the time lost due to the late start this year, partly because of the intensive work done indoors during the winter. Although conditioning will not be the cause of any Crimson defeats, the varsity is still quite rough and this is accountable in part to the weather, practices late in the afternoon, and the continued shifting between boats...
Spirit, in fact, is the only thing that can win the meet for the Crimson. The team was not at its best for the winter contest, and missed a chance for an upset. The varsity will be at a fine edge for today's clash...
...Fitzgerald, Fred Howard, and possibly Benjamin will meet Cadets Ted Benz, the Heps winner, and Dick Healy in the mile, a key event. Fitzgerald outdueled Healy when the Crimson met Army last winter, but since then Benz has come into his own, soundly defeating Fitzgerald in the Heptagonals. Howard has improved, too, and any one of five men could take first place...
...served in OSS. After six months of signal corps training, Ford was assigned in autumn, 1943, to Langer's division of the Office along with H. Stuart Hughes, another of the six. He worked on political intelligence for about a year and then went to London in the winter. While on a courier mission in North Africa, his plane narrowly escaped destruction when a German aircraft crossed the Mediterranean, attacked, and wounded the gunner...