Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abolished intercollegiate football at the University of Chicago nine years ago), crammed his 6 ft. 3 in. into an undersized football uniform for You're in the Styx, Professor, the annual faculty show. Hutchins struck a blow for higher education by warbling, in an uncertain baritone, The Rose Bowl Blues...
...then, through the dust bowl called Briggs Cage, you saw the shoes. They weren't sharply spiked for baseball or track and they weren't half dainty enough for ballet...
...Winner of this year's Rose Bowl contest by a score...
...country yesterday is not necessarily good for the country today . . . The people seek leaders who will speak for their ideas without compromise. They want leaders not only for the people but from the people. Robert A. Taft may have silver-spoon grandeur but Hubert H. Humphrey has dust-bowl guts...
...After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...