Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sportswriters the country over have have their eye on the team that has stopped four opponents for almost no gain and has reeled off yardage with devastating precision. Holy Cross, with a host of Orange Bowl veterans in the lineup and a 200-pound line to open the holes, is too good a team to stay in the loss column of the Sunday papers forever, and rooters from Cambridge to Worcester consider it possible that it may break loose tomorrow. There is no team the Purple would rather break loose against than Harvard...
...omnipresent villains of almost every frontier area he examines. "Speculators even today are of tremendous importance in the national economy," he says. Especially in times of high land values, in either city or country, the speculator is inevitably on hand, and helps to develop both slum districts and dust-bowls. Matter of fact, the Professor is worried right now about what speculation is doing in the way of a possible new dust-bowl out Colorado way; a combination of misuse of land and dry weather is apparently making for a serious disaster there in the new future...
...field, the game was faster, more rugged than ever (see SPORT). The fans had something to see. In Yale's Bowl, filled (except for a few seats) for the first time since 1937, about 65,000 sat through drizzle and downpour and gave their loudest, longest cheers to a Negro fullback. At South Bend, 55,452 swarmed over the town-including many loyal Notre Dame buffs who had never got beyond high school but would travel hundreds of miles to see "their team." Said one from Massachusetts: "Looks like the old days, only more...
...Dazzling U.C.L.A., the West Coast's odds-on Rose Bowl favorite, breezed past Stanford...
Harvardevens Village, the spanking new home for 400 students and their families, isn't an overstuffed cherry bowl. Nor is, it for that matter, a thorny crown which the University is pressing on the brows of its married veterans. Being no exception to the rule on contentious subjects, the truth about. Harvard's newest project is someplace in between...