Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown game, he did just what he ordinarily does on a scouting mission, except that the observations he made from the pressbox, instead of being jotted down in a notebook for future reference, were telephoned direct to the Harvard bench. He studied the offenses of both teams to see which plays were gaining through which slots, and kept feeding the information to Nelson, who relayed it via telephone to the bench along with his own observations. "I was very pleased to finally see the team in action," Elmer reports. "They adjusted well to various defenses, and they took advantage...
Madar handed in his report, a 15 pageopus including diagrams, the Sunday before the Harvard-Dartmouth game. That's probably what he'll be doing next year, too. How does he like Cambridge? Fine except for one thing. Mr. and Mrs. Madar are enthusiastic bowlers--but they prefer duck plus and so far they haven't been able to locate a single one of those in captivity in the Boston-Cambridge area...
...Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "The Republican Party digressed too far from the people. We offered them too many Brahmins: too many plutocrats. I have nothing against plutocrats, except too many of them have got into the party...
...Richard H. Rovere, in the Oct. 9 New Yorker: "Traveling with [Truman], you get the feeling that the American people . . . would . . . give him just about anything he wants except the presidency...
...canes. Most of Taiyuan's factories are still working-the arsenal, largest below the Great Wall, at full capacity; the cotton mills, machine-tool works, cigarette factories and soda works at reduced output for lack of raw materials. The shops were filled with all kinds of goods-except food...