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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Too Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

A natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

-An effect usually achieved by nicking some tail tendons and muscles when the horse is young and, before a show, inserting a shot of ginger in the rectum.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five Speeds Forward | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Dr. Tsien's rocket liner would be 78.9 ft. long and 8.86 ft. in diameter, with a loaded weight of 96,500 Ibs. It would have small wings and a ramjet as well as a rocket motor. Its maximum speed, 9,140 m.p.h., would carry the ship 1,200...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rockets Up & Down | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

While hearing this piece of optimism, the A.S.M.E. also honored, as the year's best technical paper by an undergraduate, a piece of rocket-pessimism by George D. Lewis of the University of Connecticut. Engineer Lewis, who now works for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., argued mathematically that a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rockets Up & Down | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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