Word: dunces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years before-almost to the day -Dunc Taylor had taken the one-a-day train out of Oxford, Md., a quiet fishing hamlet on the Eastern Shore, and gone to work for TIME. Born in East Orange, N.J., educated at Brown University ('26), he had done a reporter's hitch on the Newark Star-Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Times, spent eight years editing a detective story magazine, and had retired to Oxford to free lance. "In 1939," he says, "the world seemed to be going to hell. I couldn't go on writing fiction...
Although the jayvees lost only one man through injury in the Army game last Saturday--center Dave Waring--they have lost three more during the week. Ends Art Rohn and Pete Leavitt and fullback Dunc Mauran, all first stringers, have been moved up to the varsity...
...Dunc Mauran, a stocky, driving full-back, was Harvard's only consistent ground-gainer and when he left the game in the third period with a bleeding mouth, the losers' only real offensive threat disappeared. Mauran was removed to Stillman and the extent of his injury could not be determined last night...
...alert defense held the Eli squad to one point in the second half of the game at Soldiers Field, enabling high scorers Ned Yost, Bob Baldwinfi and Dunc McCallum to close the score...
...lineup--attack: Dick Bezanson, Hans Estin, Rick Hudner; midfield: Paul Birdsall, Paul Davidson, Dick Post; defense: Captain Bob Forsyth, Dick Hansen, Don Page; goal: Algy Allen. Reserves--attack: Lew Soule, Bill Plissner; midfield: Bill Kegg, Bob Lange, Dunc Mauran; Will Davis, Bill Graham, Dave Waring; defense: Dick Coburn; goal: Sid Clark...