Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retired Politico James A. Farley, on a trip to Europe, dropped in at Castel Gandolfo for a call on Pope Pius...
Then both tackles call signals for blocking assignments on the play. It sounds confusing, but to good T-men it isn't; on a play to the right side of the line, the players listen only to the right tackle, and let the left tackle chatter his deception signals unheeded. If the right tackle sees the "3 hole" is clogged, he may cry "Up two," and play "43" becomes "45." If the defense shifts heavily to the "play" side, he may shout "Cancel," whereupon the quarterback calls "Opposite," and the play hammers at the other side of the line...
Professor Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University thought it was time to call a halt. The latest gimmick among U.S. educators was something called "life-adjustment education" -a school of thought which seemed to believe that the teacher's job was not so much to teach history or algebra, as to prepare students to live happily ever after. "It will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning...
Thereafter Murphy was careful to call it the "instrument section." For the record, the Navy maintains that its rockets are strictly for peaceful research...
...human life, all its habits, its mores, was against him. The doors and the bathrooms and the beds and the clothes." The petite coed of his choice turned him down; his grip was a menace to life & limb, and after one embrace of his "massive passion," she had to call the doctor...