Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into drama; its culminating melodrama is clumsily handled and unexciting. But it remains an honest approach to a vital subject. And if it sounds sharp warnings, it offers no smug answers; it is evidence given in the witness box, rather than a resounding verdict handed down from the bench...
After every game each man on the team, including those who warmed the bench, is expected to write a report about the opposing players in his position. Before each game, the Bears' elaborate card index of the weaknesses in rival players is brought out and studied. Sample: the New York Giants' 225-lb. left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three...
From the crowded visitors' gallery of the oak-paneled King's Bench courtroom, eager London School of Economics students last week gazed down on the witness box, where their mentor Harold Laski, with a shield of agile dialectics, nonchalantly deflected the barbs of an irate defense counsel...
Although an injured leg had kept him on the bench for the first 20 minutes of play, Mariaschin took to the floor in the third quarter--and the Crimson began to move. Instead of merely parrying blows with yale's Tony Leavelli, the Stahl five took the play away, went on to cop the lead, and eventually won 39 to 7. Mariaschin's two baskets in the scoring columndin't count for much in the final score, but the 15,000 spectators were unanimous in attributing the win to his morale as a floor leader...
Thomas Alan Goldsborough, 69-year-old U.S. district judge appointed to the bench in 1939 in return (according to Maryland Democrats) for backing Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful 1938 "purge" of Maryland Senator Millard Tydings. Judge Goldsborough is tall, kindly, vigorous, the father of four. As a politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that...