Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High spots of the evening were talks by "Chub" Peabody, Chief Boston, and Cheerleader Jerry Spear who explained the new card system that will be used in the stands today to insure greater cheering uniformity. A mild ripple was provided by Captain Cleo O'Donnell, who modestly admitted that "as for being an inspirational leader, it's pretty easy when you have a great football team behind...
Carefully polishing their bright white shoes, nattily adjusting their deep blue ties, Yale-men occasionally take a jaunt to the Bowl on Saturday afternoons to watch Levi and his cohorts romp through their paces. But as for gridiron activities in the outlying provinces, they know precious little. Witness the card received from a Boy in Blue by a local undergraduate. It is printed verbatim...
Pocket contents: one reporter's notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which...
...glib, dreamy-eyed kid in Los Angeles' teeming Central Avenue neighborhood, Charlie Edwards felt himself a cut above the other Negro youngsters. He had bold ideas of becoming a great writer or famous legal light. But school bored him. When unappreciative teachers filled his report card with F's, Charlie brightly forged them all into...
Like a boy with a bad report card, many a corporation was none too eager to carry home to stockholders the bad news of earnings for the first half of 1946. But last week, as third-quarter reports came out, there was many a yelp of joy. There were still some failures; but there were also a surprisingly large number of "Es" for excellent...