Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be greatly appreciated if you could and would begin a campaign to open the athletic buildings on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays. Many undergraduates have heavy weekly schedules, and it is difficult for them to do more than bend their elbows. If the squash courts or the gymnasium were open of a Sunday, you might be instrumental in raising the standard of the American male physique. George C. Turner, Robert G. Merrill...
...built a tower, 30 feet high and bristling with loudspeakers, smack in the middle of Notre Dame's three-gridiron practice field. From the tower he looks down on an operation that is as carefully calculated, as extremely complicated as the Studebaker assembly line in nearby South Bend...
Every top-grade prep-school prospect was scouted and catalogued. One who rated triple-A priority was one Ernie Zalejski, ballcarrier extraordinary at Washington High-which was located, of all places, in South Bend, Ind. The story: flowers and boxes of candy flowed in to his mother, with cards from coaches all over the Big Ten; from one nice man, Ernie got an offer of $1,500 and a new home for his folks if he would put his name down for Michigan. But Ernie still wore an Army uniform, and his preference was Notre Dame...
Despite the announced policy of putting such differences up to the entire student body, it might prove disastrous to the whole undertaking if misunderstandings multiplied beyond a reasonable number. The Committee members should, therefore, bend their efforts toward reaching agreements immediately on as many of the minor issues as possible, and work hard and long at resolving the larger difficulties...
...last year, several new buildings have sprung up, among them temporary housing developments on the sites of Jarvis and Divinity Field Tennis Courts and in the bend of the Charles next to the Business School's McCulloch Hall...