Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flourish of trumpets, a, bronze bowl flaring with fire, a grey whir of pigeons beating upward above the banners of 68 nations, a parade of athletes swearing allegiance to a sportsman's creed-all this proclaimed last week that the 1956 Olympic Games had begun...
...statewide cheering section got over the tension of that slow first quarter last week, the fans realized that they had never really had anything to worry about. All they had to do was wait for the breaks and watch the Volunteers win a sure shot at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and a sure spot among the best college football teams...
...football rounded the November corner, conference standings and bowl claims began to come into focus. Yale, still smarting from eight defeats in the last nine games with Princeton, buried the previously unbeaten Tigers 42-20, assured itself at least a tie for the Ivy League championship. Iowa's Hawkeyes hung on to a thin 6-0 lead over Ohio State, edged up on the Big Ten title and copped their tickets to the Rose Bowl. Michigan State dropped out of the Big Ten title scramble by losing to Minnesota, 14-13. Oregon State just managed to squeak past Idaho...
...Colorado, after a 14-14 tie with Missouri, was a strong Orange Bowl candidate...
...Navy last week broke the world balloon-altitude record long held by the Army,* but it did not do the job with unruffled dignity. Its helium-filled balloon, made of plastic film, and 128 ft. in diameter, rose without trouble from the same bowl-like depression near Rapid City, S. Dak. that the Army's record-setting flight used in 1935. Far below its partly expanded bag hung a spherical aluminum gondola stuffed with scientific apparatus. Inside were Lieut. Commanders Malcolm D. Ross and Morton L. Lewis, wearing man-from-Mars pressure suits and festooned with instruments to measure...