Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...
Mountain climbing came into its own 98 years ago, thanks largely to a London physician named Albert Smith who could not keep his enthusiasm to himself. Among the first ever to scale white-domed Mont Blanc, the highest (15,781 ft.) of Alpine peaks, Smith produced a play based on his trek. It was no great shakes as drama, but it caught on like the Wild West shows in the U.S., ran six years in London, and gave people who had never seen a mountain the urge to climb...
Heads of the 1949-50 council committees will: Broward Craig '50, education; William L. Curwen '50, international activities; William D. Mulhelland. Jr. '50 and Richard M. Sandler '52, extra curricular activities: Unverferth and Albert B. Carter, Jr. '50 student welfare; Chase N. Peterson '53, freshman affairs; William S. Tyson '51, class affair; Henry M.Silveira Jr.'51, personnel; Richard T. Button '52, public relations; and Charles R. Brynteson '50, council constitution survey...
...July 27, Toronto vice consul Albert Stoffel replied to graham that no final decision had been made. Five days later, Chancellor Compton sent a telegram to FBI chief J. Edger Hoover, in another attempt to clear up Shortliffe's position...
...Sophomore-studded Stanford humiliated Harvard (44-0) with the flashiest offensive since Frankie Albert and Norm Standlee had their heyday in 1940. Stanford's new ball of fire: Halfback Harry ("Hoppy") Hugasian...