Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more. The hubbub has worried enough Catholic-conscious Representatives into joining the economizers and the I-don't-want-any-centralized-thought-control people in sitting heavily on all Federal aid to education. Now not even the Senate-passed Thomas Bill, which differs only from the Barden Bill in leaving the appropriations entirely up to the states, is expected to get anywhere. Federal aid to education is a long...
Preacher Roe got a one run lead in the second inning and stood up under tremendous pressure to make it stick, as he gave the New York Yankees a 1 to 0 beating to pull the Brooklyn Dodgers even in the World Series at one game each...
Henry says that he spends more time for the varsity, what with scouting and helping Valpey throw something new at his Yardlings in practice, than on his own team. "I have to use a name chart for weeks--even after, the first game," he laments...
...last Monday, five-foot, seven Inch Shepard climbed upstairs from the bare type of office the H.A.A. is prone to give its coaches in the Indoor Athletic Building, and began sorting out fifty competent larger varsity candidates. So far," he says, rustling a typewritten varsity roster, "I don't even know their names. I'll just have to drill them every day until I know what they...
...realism comes chiefly from the absence of the typical villain-hero relationship that marks the average movie plot. Henry Fonda has the leading part but he only rebels against the mob; he cannot stop the lynching. Fonda takes the position of a muse that realizes, even raises his voice against the injustice, yet when the end comes, he has really been only a bystander. And the villains too are not singly responsible but are rather cowards whose weaknesses combined make a criminal potent enough to kill three...