Word: badness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee has just attained to the major league of college football this year, then the Yankees were unheard of before their invasion of Cincinnati and Joe Louis was just another Detroit boy with a bad temper before he pommelled Lou Nova...
...canal and road and bridge. Couple of days later the Nazi High Command hinted delicately to The Netherlands High Command that it would be jolly if this compliment were returned in kind. The Dutch ignored the suggestion. The problem of defending their little country against a German juggernaut is bad enough without showing the drivers precisely where...
Burke comes from the same North Carolina school that Hal Kemp did. In fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...
However, in adopting the Harvard plan, Yale has taken the bad with the good. True no immediate firing took place, but the system of promotions becomes inflexible. Predictable vacancies based on actuarial tables govern the number of advancements and the number of dismissals. Rarely, if ever, does the number of desirable men coincide with the number of predicted vacancies...
Macdonald's last bit of contact work was against the Pennsylvania Quakers in the Stadium on October 21. He was ready for a bit of action against Army last Saturday, but a bad case of indigestion postponed his return another week...