Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh, the remnants of Pitt's 1938 Dream Team (minus Goldberg, Stebbins, Chickerneo and Coach Jock Sutherland) that had been painstakingly put together by their new coach, Charley Bowser, displayed some sparkling aerial tactics that bombed West Virginia...
...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...
Describing his role of Sheridan White-side as "an actor's dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...
This hopeful suggestion, unrealistic as a poppy dream and sadly typical of Chinese politics, quickly got two rude wake-up knocks. The U. S. State Department was not disposed "to regard the suggestion seriously." The Japanese Embassy in China was disposed to regard it as ridiculous. "Wang's statement," the Embassy sneered, "reflects his mentality...
...From Chicago (by means of joint ownership of the rich Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) to the Pacific Coast their tracks run parallel (G. N. to the north). Bewhiskered, one-eyed, oathy James J. ("Jim") Hill tried to combine them in his G. N. railroad empire in 1895, failed, saw his dream of consolidation in God's country go up in smoke. Last year N. P. had a whopping $4,300,000 deficit; G. N. a piddling (for her) $2,700,000 profit. Today there is no talk of consolidating the twin grain, iron ore, lumber hauling roads that serve much...