Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That touched many an Irish heart. John Aloysius Costello, the Taoiseach, announced that he would himself go to London and offer the canned beef at a more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British-and to cherish them in their hour of adversity...
...morning--completely attired for the afternoon's celebration climax. From debarkation at North Station the group will march through Hub traffic to the Charles River Basin where "water taxis" are scheduled to pick up the crowd for a ride to the Newell Boat House in time for luncheon at Dillon Field House. Then follows the featured parade to the baseball diamond for the Yale game...
Despite Trimble's uncertain condition and Spivak's injury, the traditional excitement that precedes any Yale contest has already reached the Varsity camp at Dillon. You can't walk five feet in the track room there without bumping into a "Beat Yale!" or "Let's keep it an undefeated season" sign. The H.A.A. has helped out, too, blanketing every bulletin board in the University with posters advertising the meet...
Coach Mikkola made sure his athletes didn't get watermelon heads after their third win in a row last Saturday. He put a chart up on the board at Dillon giving Dartmouth a five point bulge in the scoring...
Dartmouth's track team will beat Harvard in the Stadium Saturday by about five bulletin. That's what the notice on the bulletin board at Dillon says and to make everything final, the points have been allotted, event by event. Only in the mile, where two red question marks have been pencilled in, is there apparently any doubt...