Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Welsh was in London for every one of its 400-odd air raids. Once a shell fragment sailed through the window of her Berkeley Square flat, nicked her left ear and shattered the sugar bowl on the table. She got down on her hands and knees to salvage the sugar before she patched up her ear. In those days her friendships in the R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front...
During World War I the Great Lakes Naval Training Station had the best football team in the U.S. This year a new generation of Great Lakes footballers, recruited from recent All-Americas, may go to the Rose Bowl again. But if physical fitness, mental discipline and the will-to-win cut any swath on a football field, the steam rollers that should blitz this year's college elevens will come from the Navy's four preflight training centers: St. Mary's, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina...
Only Rose Bowl Team...
Winning a high percentage of his games and downing Yale every year, he went on, in 1919, to lead the only Harvard team in history to play in the Rose Bowl. At Pasadena on January 1, 1920, his team completed an unbeaten season by conquering Oregon, 7 to 6. In that game Captain Arnold Horween played one of the hero's roles and later succeeded "Bob" Fisher as head coach...
...first time in the history of Selective Service, future soldiers will not be picked out of a goldfish bowl. Except for the 20-year-olds, men will be listed in order of their birthdays, and questionnaires will go out to them in that order...