Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, one of the noisiest collections of bells-cowbells, sleighbells, dinner bells-ever assembled under one roof was ringing the rafters. St. Louis rooters were doing their tintinnabulary best to help St. Louis University's basketball team (ranked No. 2 in the nation) to get revenge against arch-rival Oklahoma A. & M. (ranked...
Womb of Death. Looking far ahead, the Air Force likes the notion of a guided missile, an "uninhabited" aircraft, probably rocket-driven, to arch from continent to continent under remote control. No effective guided missiles are yet in existence, but Army, Navy, Air Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...
...Pattern. To fight the Star, McCullagh promised to get the Telegram out of its old rut of playing to Toronto's arch-Tories, Imperialists and anti-Catholic Orange order. Said he: "The Globe & Mail will be the pattern, particularly in such things as ... racial and religious prejudice...
Besides Michigan football tricks, Coach Art Valpey brought along some Michigan collegianism. All season long, the Harvard boys had whooped it up-and still had plenty left for Yale, the arch-enemy (Princeton, which has beaten both Harvard and Yale this season, came second...
...before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin to twang again...