Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a founder and later the second president of the Woman's College of Baltimore, and he and his wife spent much of their fortune building its campus. It was the first accredited women's college below the Mason-Dixon line, and its prestige grew. By 1910, when the school was renamed Goucher College in honor of its benefactors, it was one of the top colleges for women...
Hitting, however, has been sporadic. Although the Yardlings have outscored their visitors, 34 to 10, they didn't do too well against decent pitching. Dixon of MIT limited them to two runs on six hits two weeks ago, and North of Brown yielded three runs on only four hits last Saturday...
Donelan gave up only five hits and three walks while striking out 10, but Engineer freshman Amos Dixon limited a six-hit Crimson attack to single runs in the fifth and sixth frames, yielding six passes while registering seven strikeouts...
Harvard is naturally at a disadvantage when it journeys below the Mason-Dixon line. The teams it meets will have been practicing -- outdoors -- for at least a month longer than the Crimson has been able to work, despite the fact that the weather man has been smiling on Coach Stuffy McInnis all week...
...Fair Deal has run into a strong foul wind from Dixie. The noisome success of the filibuster means not only the postponement of civil rights legislation, but a severe loss in prestige for Truman Democrats. Perhaps more important, the fears that Senate Torics on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line would join forces to balk Administration action have been sadly justified...