Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belieing Johnny Chase's early season prediction that they would be tough to beat, Army has two losses to Dartmouth, one to Yale by a dismal 9 to 1 count, and one to Princeton in eight games played. They have also a loss and tie respectively to Clarkson and Hamilton to add to Coach Len Patten's headaches...
...when there was very little sensational news. For six days the New York Times, which never tries to "sell" the news by dressing it up in big headlines, had nothing bigger on its front page than a two-column head. It was the kind of week when city editors beat the bushes for crime stories-and find them...
Roared angry Sir Arthur, the strategy required to defeat the Germans was minuscule compared to the strategy required at home to allow him to beat the Germans. With few kindly words for anyone (exceptions: Churchill, Eisenhower, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal), he rates the enemies of Bomber Command as: 1) the Royal Navy; 2) the British Army; 3) the German air force; 4) British civil service; 5) the politicians. After the Air Ministry under Sir Archibald Sinclair, "who went cap in hand to the other services," came the German Army and Sweden...
...them knew it, but Dodds had been training faithfully all along. He had put his "stamina to a test" at Cincinnati last fall in a six-mile race. "Through the Lord," he explained, "I was able to beat my record time by one minute." This winter he is living in a dingy brick tenement in Roxbury, and trying to support his family (wife and two children) and study theology on voluntary gifts from churches where he preaches. Sometimes they give him $5, sometimes $10, sometimes nothing. Says Dodds, grinning: "I trust in the Lord to get me by, and sometimes...
...MacLeod feels that the Churches of Scotland and England have paid only stammering lip service to the vigorous promptings on this score from the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury. Says he: "They have been willing to listen to the Temple bells, but not to beat the Temple drums...