Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then sat up and had a bowl of soup...
...Army squad, culled from the 1,500 recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
Americans read the names of the boys who made the first big U.S. air raid on Europe, the bombing of Rouen. One of them, Lieut. Thomas Borders, 25, of Birmingham, had played tackle on Alabama's 1938 Rose Bowl team. The list sounded like the roster of an Ail-American eleven...
...citizens in eight States and Alaska, General DeWitt was credited by the Army with having done a superb administrative job. Since Pearl Harbor, without fuss, he has moved thousands of Coast Japanese to places of safekeeping for the duration, has closed race tracks, bidden Pasadena's big Rose Bowl game go East...
...stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles, rocks, finally a baseball, lefthanded. Batting came easier; Outdoorsman Cooper always swings an ax from his left shoulder...