Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to dump Harry Truman in favor of Eisenhower at Philadelphia last year. "We can't very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name Roosevelt means something. The people here will fill a ballpark to see a Roosevelt-or a Clark Gable or a Lana Turner, of a Frankenstein. But they won't vote for them." Most of the Truman professionals preferred California's E. George Luckey, the swashbuckling Imperial Valley cattleman who had been widely advertised as President Truman...
...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...
...club is currently initiating a complete musical revue, much like the Broadway product--and this in the same room where you can eat a wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young singers and dancers take over...
Davis, regular left tackle, ended the season with more playing time than anyone else on the squad. To fill in for injuries to Houston and John Coan, he played a few minutes at running guard and worked at right guard in the Yale game.WILBUR M. DAVIS '50 holds the Frederick Greeley Crocker plaque, awarded for the first time yesterday. It goes to the football team's most valuable player...
Each year, hundreds of men stop up their brains and fill them with bith of vocabulary and grammar. Then they take Harvard's language requirement examination. If they pass, they pull the stopper and let what they have learned dribble...