Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd of Freshmen, 1500 strong proved the inadequacy of the Union last night as tables were smashed and flowing beer soaked the floor, with Jinx Falkenburg and other stellar attractions proving the only forces which could keep them under control...
George "Bunks" Burditt '43, Stellar Varsity basketball forward and captain-elect of the 1943 team, will travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to cover the national championship game, between Dartmouth and Stanford. He will report the contest for the Boston Herald, and will arrive in time for the game Wednesday...
...stay here, Neufeld has handled five Freshman track and field teams, developing a number of superior runners. John Herrick, an IC4A winner of three years ago, as well as Doug Pirnie '42, stellar dash man on the Varsity this year, are both products of Neufeld tutelage...
Rotation of stars has also puzzled astronomers. Otto Struve of the University of Chicago weeded hypotheses down to this one : that stellar rotation too is caused by interstellar dust, colliding like hail stones with the stars. While the sun rotates with a velocity at its equator of only* Messier 51 in Canes Venatici (The Hounds) twelve miles per second, the stars of Aquila whirl at 9,360 miles per second. At such speeds, stars become unstable and shed rings of hot gas. Thus, as some stars are born of dust, others are destroyed...
Once again throwing his scrubs into the fray, McCoy saw this tremendous lead slowly vanish in the face of a determined prep counter-attack. But the stellar first five started the last quarter and soon had things well under control. Frank Bixler, Capt. Mike Keene and substitute forward Sam Post led the scoring with eight tallies apiece...