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Minnesota is accustomed to good football teams. The State is full of husky farm boys who make powerful linemen, powerful backs. When Minnesota gets a smart quarterback, to boot, it invariably has a great team. This year Minnesota has such a quarterback: Bobby Paffrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titanic Gophers | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Freshman tilt, the Yardlings wiped away a one goal Bruin lead with scores in the third period. But the Cubs came back in the last canto to boot in another one to make the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS FIGHT SCORELESS DEADLOCK WITH BROWN ON WET FIELD | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Professional Fighters | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...thirty, and threatened to score numerous times, but with three periods gone the game was still tied up. It took Tom Broidrick's too to finally rack up three points and put the game on ice with a few minutes left in the game, as charges with a perfect boot from twenty-he stole the march on Dick Harlow's five yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER FIELD GOAL BEATS DUDLEY AS LOWELL VANQUISHES ELIOT 12-0 | 11/6/1940 | See Source »

...problems which furrow the brow of patient Secretary of State Cordell Hull is what to do about official Nazi representatives in the U. S. The activities of two underlings have been so brazen that he has had to boot them out.* But Mr. Hull has to be careful when he kicks, lest he break the already taut cord of diplomatic relations with Hitler. U. S. representatives would then in turn be booted out of Germany, and the U. S. be deprived of one of its few remaining listening posts in Europe. The zeal of the Dies Committee has not made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Spies and Dies | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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