Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unit Friday, with only Metropolitan League matches behind it, Coach Barnaby's squad had been unable to win. However, the trip to the northland may have been the turning point for the team, for it achieved decisive wins over Dartmouth, McGill, and the Montreal Squash and Badminton Club...
...Sunday morning the Crimson defeated the Montreal Badminton and Squash Club...
During the first days of World War II, when King George's mother was sent from London to the comparative safety of the ancient Gloucestershire estate of Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with...
...Orleans schools himself (before going to Loyola University of the South), soon began to change things. He wanted a playground, and went direct to Beauregard parents for the money. Before long, he had enough to cover the muddy schoolyard with all-weather asphalt. Then he set up tennis, badminton and volleyball courts. For the youngest kids, he put in a basketball court with baskets five feet off the ground...
...Badminton: letters: Jacqueline Laueres '50, Edith Mullen '51, Sally Vincent '52. Numerals: Phoche Crampton '52, Jean McCormick '51, Francena Thomas...