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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actual scrimmaging time was kept to a minimum as the team began to taper off on contact work. A dummy scrimmage took up the better part of the afternoon with emphasis on split-second timing and final details of the new system. A short but vicious assault on the tackling dumies finished ceremonies...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Varsity Eases Up On Contact, Polishes Plays | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

...Dexter, 40 miles from Des Moines, the President left the train. In a 37-auto motorcade he traveled to the Widow Lois Agg's 160-acre farm. There he delivered the week's major assault on the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mowing 'Em Down | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

With no more success, the Commies tried to attack the Labor government's plan for freezing wages (nonCommunist workers don't like it either, but they would brook no Red assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shaken Symbol | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...assault on the South last week, Henry Wallace acted more like an agitator than a presidential candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Eggs in the Dust | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...pinked in the arm. Last week, a soprano at Milan's famed La Scala bopped a critic for having written that she was "suffering from a slight vocal eclipse" in a performance of Aïda. Next day, the Milan Journalists Association condemned opera singers who assault music critics, praised the "chivalrous" music critic for not hitting back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Call to Arms | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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