Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other big wheel, Michigan, had been turning slowly ,so far this season. It had a new coach, old Michigan Immortal Bennie Oosterbaan, as well as a few players left over from last year's Rose Bowl champions. Michigan barely got past Michigan State (13-7) in its first game, but picked up some momentum against Oregon (14-0), and last week crushed Purdue...
Next fall's meeting will mark the first time that Harvard and Stanford have played football against each other. The Crimson has visited the West Coast once before, though, beating Oregon 7-6 in the 1920 Rose Bowl...
...hour work days last week, the mayor of Los Angeles trudged up the 135 steps to his house on a hill high above the Hollywood Bowl. Below him was one of the great man-made sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth...
...Angeles had been picked for Dewey's all-out attack on Communism. There, in the gaudy setting of the Hollywood Bowl, a line of chorus girls danced on stage, movie stars trooped to the mike, and searchlights and floodlights made an incandescent tent over...
...William Ray, an 80-year-old barber of Lowell, Ohio (pop. 1,000), was still using the same wooden chair and the same leather soap bowl with which he started barbering 58 years ago, and still charging the same prices: haircut 15?, shave...