Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quantico Marines, Georgetown, and Navy are expected to provide the toughest games of a tough week. The Leathernecks are coached by Captain Raymond "Hap" Spuhler, who learned his baseball at Duke from Jack Coombs, the former great Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher. Coombs and McInnis played together with...
...second year in a row. Twelve lettermen are returning from last year's squad which registered a 19-8 record against college teams, won 99 out of its 121 games, and was never shut out. It played some of the leading college baseball teams, including Michigan, Ohio State, Georgetown, Duke, Virginia, and Maryland...
...Founded Duke...
...Murphy founded the Psychology Department and the Parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, and several years later went to CCNY. He returned to Harvard in the summer of 1942 and taught a course in psychic experimentation. Murphy was recently elected president of the English society for Psychical Research...
...daughter of crafty, crusty Louis XI, King of France, Jeanne was born (1464) a sickly, misshapen creature. Her father was so displeased that he sent her away to be raised by guardians in lonely seclusion. When she was eleven, he married her off to the 14-year-old Duke of Orleans, hinting that he intended thus to end the Orleans line with his ugly, barren daughter...