Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude of the University in this whole matter is remarkable. Harvard's top officials are perfectly aware that, whether they like it or not, football has come to be the public identification tag on American universities. Harvard put football on a big-time basis--with the first high-pressure coach, the first big stadium, the first "big game"--and now tht other schools have developed this technique far beyond us, Harvard cannot escape at least some of the consequences...
...Williams, the Red Sox's slugging outfielder, was voted 1949's most valuable American League player for the first time in his career yesterday by an unofficial committee of baseball writers...
...Liberal Union and the local chapter of the American Veteran's Committee last night joined the Young Progressives in investigations of the NROTC loyalty oath...
Peekskill saw the first mobilization of the American storm troopers," said William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress...
Perhaps the University attitude toward the theater (if it has an attitude) reflects both Harvard's Puritanical beginning and the prevalent American attitude. As this is the only major university in the country without a theater, so is the United States the only civilized country in the world without a national theater...