Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolles has all available fingers crossed today lost the malady which deprived the two first crews of three oarsmen yesterday turns out to be an epidemic of measles. A change in diagnosis from the German to the regular variety of the spots has already counted Varsity stroke Thorvald Ross out of the regatta on the Severn next Saturday...
...billed flight cap, the President toured the hangar deck, put-putted around on a tractor, climbed up to the island, then went below on another tour to sick bay, engine room, bakery, and finally to a brief stop at the soda fountain.. By mid-afternoon Press Secretary Charley Ross had developed a bad case of foot blisters. Harry Truman was still fresh and going more places...
Further hampered by the loss of stroke Torby Ross, who was laid low by German Measles, the Varsity will at least be competing under favorable weather conditions, promised as fair and cool with gentle, variable winds. The afternoon's competition will begin at 4:45 o'clock when Bert Haines' first and second shells of 150 pounders face M.I.T. and Tabor Academy on a 1 5-16 mile course. At 5:10 o'clock the Crimson, Cornell, M.I.T., and Princeton Jayvees will christen the 1 3/4 mile course...
...fill Ross's elide, Bolles pulled Lou Cox out of his Jayvee boat on Thursday. Cox, an ex-infantryman who holds the Purple Heart, stroked the Varsity shell once before earlier in the season, and was stroking the Jayvees when they beat the big boat two weeks...
...gladdened the heart of a Washington visitor who admired his silver-streaked black bow tie. The visitor -Connecticut Publisher William J. Pape -yearned for one just like it. But there was none, said the President; he therefore lent the tie to Pape for a night. White House Secretary Charles Ross took pains to keep things quite clear. "He has it on loan," he emphasized. "We expect him to return...