Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...meager practice makes the Crimson's outlook especially grim. In the past two weeks the team has had only one game with Milton, and a bare 20 minutes of practice yesterday afternoon. All this has made the players fairly rusty. Ever since Pete Lawson replaced Jack Snelling as center for the high scoring Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris pair, the new line hasn't had enough time to get used to working together...
Recordings of Professor Jones' Lowell Lecture series on "Boston as a Literary Center, 1850-1914" will furnish the broadcasting materials...
...starting three Eli forwards, Captain Gordie Ritz, Watson Bray, and Allen Clapp, have collected 74 points among them, nine more than the rest of the team combined. Center Bray leads the team in scoring with 17 goals, while Ritz is the playmaker with 16 assists. The only other Yale scoring ace is Tom McNamara with 11 goals and an equal number of assists...
...Botanical Gardens are no more. A University-sponsored housing development will soon take their place, but until then only a bleak, blank space will great passers by at the corner of Linnean and Garden Streets. Above this barren area stands the Grey Herbarium, a Botanic Research center, the sole remaining part of the Cambridge landmark...