Word: famous
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...12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...
...Doak Walker is the younger by a year and not quite so famous as pass-throwing Bobby. But on the opening kickoff, 175-lb. Quarterback Walker took the ball, shrewdly smuggled it to a teammate who galloped 84 yards, almost for a touchdown. A Walker pass and a short run made it, and Walker kicked the extra point. Bobby, who plays only on offense, wasn't even in the game...
...either golden or good; but almost all seem to love to tell about them. In an anthology out last week, two longtime schoolmasters-ex-Headmaster Claude M. Fuess and Teacher Emory S. Basford of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.-have made a scrapbook collection of the tales some 100 famous men have told, over the ages, out of school...
...from New Jersey romped and staggered over a series of tricky and highly confidential plays last night in the now famous "crossed t" formation. These were originated in 1912 by Coach "Fritz" Krysier, whose team yesterday exhibited its renowned "fluid drive" offense...
...effort to screen Communists from the pedagogic profession or to weed out alleged disloyalty was branded "a witch hunt" by the famous anthropologist, "which might take on political and partisan coloration...