Word: back
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ailing Yale player, second-string fullback Richard D. Liechty, a senior from Lake Geneva, Wis., played over half of last Saturday's game with Connecticut. After the game Liechty reported to the infirmary with a back strain. Yesterday the case was diagnosed as polio...
They were wrong, even though the first year of Marshall aid produced a fine and eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
Despite a few false starts, Ivy Films has now signed contracts for complete world distribution of the film both for amateur and professional showings. Interest in the movie still unpreviewed by the public, has continued to mount ever since sneak showings back in February. At that time, Colliers and Life magazines both expressed interest in articles on the film club...
Fortunately both fullbacks, Mike Scully and Herrick Drake, are back this year, as is Charlie Weiss, Harvard's All New England inside right last fall and a potential All-American this year. Richmond Miller is the only starting halfback not lost through graduation, but sophomore Pants Pantaleoni looms strong among the halfbacks candidates...
That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...