Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
...time a Crum protégé reaches Allentown High, he should know the coach's system of "give-and-go" and "flooding the center-lane." Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...
Prize protégé on this season's squad is ham-fisted Center Bill Wanish, who can hold a basketball in each hand palms down. In last week's game, Bill made 15 points. His No. 1 helper is Negro Elmo Jackson (ten points), a lightning-fast forward. Both Wanish and Jackson were regulars on Allentown's tricky T-formation football team, also coached by Crum, which has also won the Pennsylvania state championship for the past two years...
Three of the principal suggestion that will appear on the group's agenda are the Student Council recommendation for a Student Activities Center, a new Medical Center as proposed by Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and a Music and Arts Center advocated by Joseph Hudnut, Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design...
Monday's tilt with Arlington revealed unexpected power in the Freshman second-string line, which pulled the team up by its ankle wraps after a slow first period. Left wing Larry Ward, right wing Gid Loring, and center Haven Abbett were easily "the outstanding line on the ice," Coach Stan Priddy stated after the contest...