Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House aimed a three-gun battery at every Government department within range: 1) extended for two years the Dies investigation of un-American activities; 2) authorized the House Appropriations Committee to pry into every budgetary fact; 3) set up a new committee to investigate any Federal bureau from cellar to attic, on a citizen's complaint...
Counterattack (adapted from the Russian of Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman by Janet and Philip Stevenson; produced by Lee Sabinson) is a play about Russians and Nazis that could just as well be about cops & robbers. For three acts a Russian corporal and private stand guard -in a claustrophobic cellar whose entrance caves in-over seven disarmed but wily Nazis and a German nurse. Because they cannot find out which Nazi is the officer they have been ordered to bring back alive, the Russians must hold their rebellious, scheming prisoners rather than shoot them down. Since one Russian gets wounded...
...battle itself was played in very cold weather on an unusually large rink. The Cadets, despite their cellar rating, put on a good performance, covering very well in front of their cage, and it took good hockey on the part of Coach John Chase's men to rack up six goals...
...hitherto unbeaten Princeton basketball team, victors over "unbeatable" Dartmouth, leaders of the Eastern Intercollegiate League (considered one of the nation's best this year) and called third best in the East, beaten, and beaten convincingly by a Harvard team that had spent a miserable season in the League cellar, unable, till Saturday night, to live up to its pre-season press notices. The score was 36 to 32. There was more to it than figures can tell...
Since the entrance of the Military Academy into the League, the team has never left the cellar, and this year is no exception. The Army sextet has suffered three successive defeats, and bids fair to bury its head, like an ostrich, in the depths of the circuit cellar once again...