Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening football game, little Geneva College, led by a 230-pound guard named Cal Hubbard, slammed out a 16 to 7 victory over a Harvard team which was minus R. W. Turner and J. P. Crosby, both of whom had been inactivated by the language requirement. The number of one's classmates who were on pro would astonish today's undergraduate--950 entered as freshmen, but only 650 would be around to graduate. Coach Horween had a whole-team of ineligible men which he used to scrimmage the varsity...
...turn out 2,201,188 cars-a record his company did not better until 1950's 2,364,508. Ford went everywhere, met everyone, and had opinions on everything. He became such a national hero that millions urged him to run for President. When he refused in 1923, Cal Coolidge, who wanted the job, sent him a telegram of thanks...
Johan H. Andreson, Jr., Sinedbraaten, Skoyen, Oslo, Norway; atrick T. Colt, Newtown, Conn.; Ernest B. Dane, 3rd, Middletown, Conn.; Duncan N. Dickson, Utica, N. Y.; Harrison Gardner, Jr., Wenham, Mass.; Christopher c. Ingraham, Providence, R. I.; Stephen L. Reynolds Weston, Mass.; Hans C. Vitzthum, San Diego, Cal.; Brayton F. Wilson, Cambridge, Mass.; Roger F. Langley, Jr., Baue, Mass...
...down to more serious work. Last week five of them drove to a taproom in a stolen sedan. "Blackie" Battles, the lad who had been shot by the enforcer, stood outside with a high-powered rifle. One waited in the car, and the rest walked inside holding .32-cal. pistols...
...reported that oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, during a recent White House visit, recalled a White House lunch in 1924 during which President Calvin Coolidge spoke only once: "Early in the luncheon, Mrs. Coolidge had informed her husband that Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, wife of the artist, was ill. Silent Cal merely grunted. Finally, two courses later, he peered over his spectacles and mumbled, 'D'jasendflowers...