Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three teams in the second heat finished under eight minutes, headed by the Elephants who crossed the line in 7:49 to lead the Lowell crew by a length and a hair. Leverett, finishing in 7:56, was third in the heat. The race yesterday completed the bracket of second crews...
Getting off to a quick start with a single by Lambert, the opposition accounted for two markers in the first bracket when Manekofsky followed suit with a long smash to center field that went for a home...
Chief punch in the Harvard lineup is provided by Art Johns as leadoff man and Lupe Lupien in the cleanup position who are both hitting well over .400. Fulton, Hoye, and Grondahl, all in the .300 bracket, should also worry Princeton's Lefty Farber, leading Tiger moundsman...
...Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...
...squash tennis is the New York Athletic Club's 31-year-old Harry Florian Wolf, who has held the so-called national amateur championship for nine years. Last week, on the slick white courts of Manhattan's Harvard Club, Slugger Wolf pasted his way through a bracket of 37 aspirants to his tenth championship, but as far as 99.44% of U. S. sport followers were concerned, he might as well have won the ash-barrel-rolling title...