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...freshmen and sophomores is so disorganized and spontaneous, however. The annual "canespree" in October is a traditional event. The name descended from ancient times, and has since lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the two classes tries to wrest from the grasp of the other. Nowadays the canespree has become a much larger series of events, and the name-event is not as important as the tug-o'-war or the track and field events that now make up the program...
Williams, scion of a Virginia banking family, went to work at Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. after graduating from Harvard Business School. In 1929, after switching to his father's bank, he started a proxy fight to wrest Freeport's control away from a management he thought slipshod. Young Whitney, heir to an estimated $100 million fortune, had taken a $15-a-week "buzzer boy" job at Lee, Higginson rather than loaf. At the suggestion of his department boss, 25-year-old Whitney plunked a $500,000 stake into Williams' fight, enabled...
Between the U.N. anvil at Seoul and the U.N. hammer at Pusan the bulk of the enemy's strength would be pounded. "By employing [our] two great advantages," predicted MacArthur, "we are going to wrest the ground initiative from him . . . If that can be accomplished, these [Communist] forces will sooner or later disintegrate...
During the beginning of the sprint, M.I.T. appeared to be able to hold its infinitesimal advantage and wrest the Compton Cup from the Crimson. Harvard caught up and the race reached that sort of situation in which the crew that is stroking as it gets to the finish line is the winner. That crew was Harvard. The winning time was 9:08. M.I.T. recorded 9:08.2, Princeton 9:32.6, and Rutgers, distinctly out of the race...
...different from the confident eagerness of a half-century ago. Then everyone was all optimism, inevitable progress still enjoyed some degree of credibility, and the millennium had almost arrived. Man, while not still center of the universe, yet had faith in reason and his own power finally to wrest control of nature from those forces which had remained mysterious till then...