Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cucumbers & Cheese. "It's not that I know much about education," Hutchins once said just before launching into one of his attacks, "it's that I know nothing else." The son of a Presbyterian preacher1 who was also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about...
...many a 1½ mile event, Eddie pulled up. Eddie's error: the Pimlico Cup, longest of U.S. stake races, is 2½ miles. The awful truth dawned when the other horses sped by and one jockey cried derisively: "We have to go around again, buddy...
...really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace. As Pennsylvania's switch to the platoon system last week indicated, however, the new game looked tempting to the schools that could play it. It seemed to be around to stay...
...Griffith Stadium. The coach, Vice Admiral John E. Whelchel, U.S.N. (ret.), was giving his pros a pep talk, and it was for the ears of football players only. "Billick" Whelchel broke a big piece of news: it was his last game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes by the aging master, 35-year-old Slingin' Sammy Baugh, and Understudy Harry Gilmer, a skittering, 74-yd. run down the sideline by Pete...
...Preston Marshall, the ex-hoofer, ex-Hearst publisher (Washington Times) and millionaire laundryman who once exclaimed at a dinner party: "Congratulate me, folks, I've finally arrived socially-today I got the sheets of Mrs. Borden Harriman." Washington thought George would miss having a vice admiral to order around...