Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sturdy tackle Will Davis played one of his best defensive games, covering his position well except for one sequence and making many stops outside his area. Both ends performed capably-Stretch Mazzone, who has developed over this season into an excellent defensive end, and Pete Leavitt. The backers-up, Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien, also worked commendably, but the big Bruin line found it too easy to open holes in the Crimson forward wall. For a while, Howie Houston looked great on defense...
Brown made most of its ground yard-age through the guards, as so many of Harvard's opponents have done this year. Except for the final goal line stand in the third period, Harvard's defense was unimpressive...
Scenic Effect. In Philadelphia, the Tilles Restaurant removed their suggestion box after two days when a quick checkup showed that 96% of the male customers wanted nothing added except prettier waitresses...
...years, a favorite joke in the West was that the people of Moscow had a clean, sumptuous, artistically constructed subway, admirable in every respect except one: there were no trains. Unlike many other jokes about Soviet Russia, this one contained no grain of truth. The Moscow subway trains run, and they run well...
...language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...