Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since junketing Congressmen began making side trips to Spain last autumn, the news from Madrid has sounded as though they had made their pilgrimages across the Pyrenees just to give Dictator Francisco Franco a kindly pat on the back. Most spoke enthusiastically both of a big U.S. loan to the Spaniards and of full U.S. recognition of Franco's Fascist government. But last week three traveling members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee bluntly suggested that the U.S. should not be judged exclusively by the sweet talk of its traveling politicos...
Cannon at Saratoga. The editorial ended on an odd and not entirely accurate note: "We want to remind American parliamentarians that the big, friendly American republic still owes us 2,000,000 gold pounds, 216 bronze cannon, 29 mortars, 12,806 cannon balls, 30,000 rifles with bayonets and 30,000 uniforms-the uniforms that Washington's men wore after Valley Forge and the cannons that won the Battle of Saratoga.* It is thanks to these rifles and cannon that Messrs. Pfeifer and Zablocki and Gordon are American "Congressmen today...
...green lollypops to frightened little children, some of whom had to be dragged up to him bodily. Santa had a new assistant this year, a young lady who called herself Miss Holly and who was dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that he was a student at BC. "We have a 325-pound Santa in the window who everybody thinks is padded, but he isn't. He's a retired psychology professor...
...final chukker, the Crimson team put the game away by adding six more tallies as Cornell doubled their score. Tom Calhoun counted three times, his brother twice, and Beveraggi, on a poor mount, once. A last minute drive by Cornell resulted in four goals in two minutes, leaving the Big Red one short...
There will be two big men missing from each team's lineup tonight. For Harvard, second line center Lew Preston, who pulled a leg muscle last week, is still out of action. Fortunately for the varsity, the Eagles will be without the services of all-American defenseman Butch Songin is playing quarter-back this week in the North-South football game...