Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knoxville, Tennessee proved that it will be formidable this year without Quarterback George ("Bad News") Cafego,* who last year led his teammates to an undefeated, untied, unscored-on season and an invitation to the Rose Bowl. Against Duke's Blue Devils, hailed as the best team Coach Wallace Wade has turned out in a decade, Tennessee last week ran its string of victories to 25 in a row-excluding last year's post-season Rose Bowl drubbing by Southern California...
...program-which he supports-from "its enemies in a Republican-dominated Congress." In Gallup, N. M., where he made parts of his speech in Spanish, he declared. "The two Americas must become one America," then moved on to California to spread the New Deal gospel in the same Hollywood Bowl where Willkie had attacked...
...shape by the Niagaras of human tears that had flowed down them. The plain and tragic and innocent faces of the people, the people who 'must be left nothing but their eyes to weep with,' as Sheridan said." "An old [French] Red Cross nurse . . . put down the bowl of broth she was ladling out to the refugees and . . . took my arm. . . . 'Madame,' she said, 'you are an American?' I said: 'Yes,' and she went on: 'Then you must tell me the truth: qui nous a trahi? Who has betrayed...
Five days later, local boards will assign a serial number to each registrant (thousands will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...
...Michigan was the first college to be invited to play in the Rose Bowl, drubbed Stanford...