Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes things good in the fact that from last year's runner-up teams for the Pentagonal League title, only six lattermen have graduated. An a result, the experience of what Coach John Chase calls a "pretty rough season" will be behind a big bloc of players...
...Algie Allen, who worked as a pair last season, are back; but they both graduate in February. Jack Carman and Bob DiBlasio form a great big pair; but both men are still adapting them selves from football. The other available defensemen are the sophomores...
Davis explained that the grouping of bus-stops around the kiosk and near the Yard, now keeps the Coop block from becoming "one big loading platform." Merchants in that block had previously complained that the bus-stops discouraged customers with automobiles and blocked off the store fronts...
This latest attempt to cover the subject of John L. Lewis in one volume makes exciting, highly colorful reading. It draws on interviews more than anything else for its facts, and thus gains a high degree of emotional impact in describing the conflicts that have always surrounded the big, ham-handed UMW boss...
...column inches or 4.2 percent of the total news coverage for the year, foreign or domestic. This meant that about one-twentieth of the New York Times day in and day out was devoted to Lewis and his operations." Lewis is now, and always has been, a big man in American unionism: this cannot be denied, even by his most rabid enemy. But a good biographer must balance his book, and this Mr. Alinsky has not done...