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Word: availables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed opponents a meager 195 yds. per game, only 52 points all season. Enemy quarterbacks fill the air with footballs (an average of 35 to 40 passes a game) until, as Royal says, "they have us blinking like a horned frog in a hailstorm." But all to no avail. Even in practice, the fanatical Longhorns play for keeps. Last spring, Tackle Scott Appleton, a 235-lb. All-America candidate, halted an intrasquad scrimmage to protest a referee's call. The startled ref admitted that he was wrong. But what difference did it make? "Sir," growled Appleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: When in Doubt, Punt | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...here or a bad play there. But the overall picture given by the play charts shows that the Massachusetts punt early in the third quarter confined activity for the rest of the game between the 30-yard lines. Harvard gained good yardage between these two points, but to no avail...

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Punts Key to UMass Tie | 10/2/1963 | See Source »

Ever since, poor Seiji has believed that all 5 ft. 6 in. and 125 Ibs. of him is somehow not enough to command respect on a podium. He downed quarts of beer every day in an effort to build a stocky German silhouette, to no avail. "It would be ideal to be older and German," he mused. "But can I help being young and thin and Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: The Anguish of Being Young & Thin & Japanese | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...introduction of both extensive non-honors tutorial and tutorial in the sciences reflected the University's concern that more students should be able to avail themselves of the University's offerings...

Author: By Richard L. Levine, | Title: Class of '63 Sees Great Changes in College | 6/12/1963 | See Source »

...where buses hook up with Manhattan. Last year the line collected $47,289 in revenues from passengers-and lost $200,000 on them. Former owners did everything to shoo off the commuters, even to removing newer cars and replacing them with 50-year-old cars -but all to no avail. Last month New York Real Estate Man Irving Maidman, 66, became chairman after having bought control of the line for $1,500,000. He promptly came up with some new ideas to drive away passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Buying Off the Commuters | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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