Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woodstock, Vt.: fair snow of eleven inches with a light breakable crust...
Captain Charley Lutz, best of all Crimson hoopmen, was too light to make his high school team at Gary, Ind. His running mate, Bill Webber, saw little regular service at Des Moines, Iowa. Diminutive Chet Legg is the only man who was a full-fledged regular before he came to Harvard. Legg played at Evanston High in Illinois and Exeter Academy. The other ranking forward, Fran Simpson, did bench duty at Oak Park, Illinois...
...rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope that these variations are above the level of some piano works and a vacuous suite for Violoncello alone by this composer which we have heard recently. Of course, this is an unfair comment, for Reger, according to many critics, has written...
...hill above England's Salisbury Plain a stuffy general stood at the roadside, watching the 17th Light Battery return from a route march. Mules, guns, gunners. A frail, thoughtful major at the head of the column, a red-faced ungentlemanly subaltern in the rear. The general responded more favorably to the sight of a third officer: a fair young second-lieutenant with the right build for a horseman, a careless, well-bred face. Good stuff, this. "Who's that, Benjamin?" "Windrush, sir, Tubby Windrush." "Windrush . . . Windrush ... I knew his father. Get him here, will...
Although the goal judge flashed his light, Referee Herb Gallagher disallowed the score after a five minute argument in which no one could find a hole in the net through which the puck could have passed...