Word: donning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Big (6 ft., 190 lbs.), fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's...
Stuttgart's "Swede" McCormick, who acts as guide to Arkansas Governor Sidney McMath, had a thought for the ducks. Said he: "These ducks live to be five years old at most. We hit them when they're between two and three years old, the governor and I figure...
On the first night of the adult education series, silver-haired Poet E. E. Cummings gazed out over the audience in the new science hall of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. and announced that he was "terrified." He had expected about 30 people, but 600 had come. "I don'...
For Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach...
One of the biggest gripes of U.S. railroaders is that their barge-line competitors use the federal-maintained inland waterways, and that trucks and buses use highways also built with tax dollars. "We don't want subsidies," said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads last...