Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Odell Shepard is an idealist, a writer, a lover of Connecticut, a wanderer and a teacher. So was Bronson Alcott, hero of Shepard's Pulitzer Prize biography (Pedlar's Progress). Alcott was a failure at almost everything he tried; Shepard has been a success...
...Stablmen will be seeking their first win today after three defeats, assigning the pitching duties against the also winless Jumbos to Joe Phelan, who dropped a close, 8 to 7 contest to Connecticut. Right-hander Phelan, returning to college after service with the Marines, pliched here during the 1941 and 1942 seasons...
Representatives from hog districts, textile states, cattle regions, automobile centers, oil country, cotton belts and dairy lands logrolled pet peeves into law. In the crush, Connecticut's Herman P. Kopplemann offered an amendment of "sympathy to the American people," heard it voted down by a whacking majority...
Harry S. Truman gladdened the heart of a Washington visitor who admired his silver-streaked black bow tie. The visitor -Connecticut Publisher William J. Pape -yearned for one just like it. But there was none, said the President; he therefore lent the tie to Pape for a night. White House Secretary Charles Ross took pains to keep things quite clear. "He has it on loan," he emphasized. "We expect him to return...
...fifth, two hits and an error upped the Connecticut total to seven, but, in their half of the same inning, Harvard pushed one run across on Swegan's triple and an infield out. They gained ground with two more runs, in the sixth on two errors and Ed Foynes' single...