Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizeable portion of the University remained in "the age that is past" Sunday after the rest of the Commonwealth returned to Eastern Standard Time...
...nostrils. Haughtily, she refused. They would hire her as a full-fledged member of the company, or they would not get her at all. "They expected me to beg for a role. I would rather have died," she told friends. In 1951 La Scala capitulated. At the age of 28, she opened the Scala season in Sicilian Vespers...
...from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor made him managing editor of the conservative old Hartford Courant at the age of 26. But the Courant was too slow for Gauvreau's new ideas. After it fired him, Macfadden lured him to launch the Graphic...
...make military maps. This talent, plus his father's connections, helped him rise. He served in the Continental Army for a year and a half (including a few weeks as Washington's aide-de-camp). Then, disappointed that the commission making him a full colonel at the age of 20 was postdated by three months, he resigned. "A soldier's honor," Trumbull haughtily informed Congress, "forbids the idea of giving up the least pretension of rank...
...Michigan State rolled over and around Notre Dame. As usual, State was no better than tied (7-7) at the half, as usual roared out after Coach Daugherty's briefing to massacre the enemy. With State's three sets of backs blasting out the yard age, they swamped the Irish 47-14. With Fullback John Herrnstein scoring three touchdowns, Michigan rolled to a 34-20 victory over stubborn Northwestern, established itself as a leading candidate for the Rose Bowl. (Michigan State is ineligible as last year's winner.) Penn State, throttling Ohio State's vaunted ground...