Word: ending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less generously in occupation than the Japanese did. The battle of Okinawa completely wrecked the island's simple farming and fishing economy: in a matter of minutes, U.S. bulldozers smashed the terraced fields which Okinawans had painstakingly laid out for more than a century. Since war's end Okinawans have subsisted on a U.S. dole. Many islanders have no clothes except U.S. Army castoff shirts and dungarees. Okinawans may trade with the outside world only through military government, which means virtually not at all. The result has been a brisk smuggling exchange with Formosa. But even as smugglers...
Massive Leon Hart, 21, an end for Notre Dame, won the Maxwell Memorial Trophy award as college football's player of the year. Although he still has two more games to play, rival pro leagues were bracing to bid for the tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), rugged (252 lbs.) lad from Turtle Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though...
...receiving set at the other end has three picture tubes. They are like black & white tubes except that each has on its face a phosphor that glows in a different basic color. Each little impulse (the colored freight cars) arriving over the beam is electronically switched to the properly colored tube. They arrive so fast that each tube-face is covered 15 times a second with a pattern of tiny dots corresponding to the blues, reds and greens in the scene being televised. The more red there is in a part of the scene (e.g., a red dress), the brighter...
...what really stung Graduate Manager Frederic Santler was the gate receipts-only 158 paid admissions. For the season, Whitman had not only lost six out of eight games; it had also gone $4,000 into the red. Cried Manager Santler: "This marks the beginning of the end for Whitman . . . in intercollegiate athletics...
Fill the Bleachers. Whitman students disagreed. What the school needed, they decided, was more paying spectators to get more money for more athletic scholarships. The first step to that end was plain: fill the bleachers for the season's last game, with Eastern Oregon College of Education...