Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepard thinks his new team ought to do a little better than last year's three-up and 20-down wonders. He leans back, grins, and says "I might as well make the usual coach's comment. Things look encouraging." Shepard is going to teach his boys, the same fast-break type of ball he played himself; his schedule is a "reasonably tough...
...most satisfying medium of production ever known. It puts a premium on sincerity and honesty." To achieve "sincerity," he will rely more on pantomimes for his oldtime songs than on vocalists ("After all, everybody knows the lyrics"). There will also be a good deal of folksy comment from the maestro ("Doggone, here I am jabbering away like . . . like . . . well, a magpie...
Wilburn T. Thomas, expert on Asia, will comment on new developments in the Far East at 7:30 p.m. tonight before a meeting of the Appleton Club in the basement of Memorial Church...
...Ohioan's speech were a solitary incident, it would not merit comment, but there seems to be a concentrated effort to line up Congress and the people behind a program of aid and comfort to Franco. Senator Pat McCarran is currently touring Europe, trying to see how relations with Spain can be improved; an American naval delegations recently visited the Caudillo, gave a big show for Spanish government officials, and was warmly received...
...closing, a comment on "Confidential Report on the Confy Guide:" Not wishing to provoke a professional war, and fully aware of the shortcomings of the Confy Guide, the CRIMSON does wish to point out a great many polls are thrown out each year because they represent insufficient sampling. "There's not enough on this guy to write about" is a common occurrance while compiling the Guide; praise or vilification, recurring in a number of polls, is the basis for the CRIMSON's judgment. A more complete polling would undoubtedly produce more accurate estimates; under the present system, each evaluation...