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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four 22-minute quarters and one five-minute overtime period, both Crimson and Nassau passed the ball around beautifully, but neither could score. Then, at 0.33 of the second and final overtime period, center forward Vern Drehmel charged in to score the big Harvard goal. The ball had bounced off inside right Jon Spivak's chest after Bill Harrop had tried a free kick...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouguet, | Title: Booters Upset Princeton, Win, 1-0, in Overtime | 11/6/1949 | See Source »

...Trustees of the four-year old College of New Jersey voted to purchases a bookcase in 1750. This is the first record in Princeton's annals of any provisions for the printed word. It was just some 198 years later, in June, 1948, that President Dodds set the last few pounds of the 5,200 tons of Foxcraft stone required in the Gothic exterior walls of the 86,000,000,000 Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's New Firestone Library Dominates Nassau Academic Plant | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Flexibility of use was obtained by adopting the modular system of construction. This in practice, came about by constructing the interior of the library in uniform units of space, 18-feet by 24-feet, and bounded at the four corners by supporting columns. These dimensions were chosen because of their suitability for the open stacks, and seminar, office and carrel arrangements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's New Firestone Library Dominates Nassau Academic Plant | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Here are Princeton's four favorite formations. In picture one, the basic setup--a straight single wing. The peculiarity lies in the fact that the guards run outside the tackles, or in just the opposite position from Harvard's line alignments. When the Tigers go into left formation, the whole pattern is flopped over, with each man in the same position exactly reversed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Attack Shows Shifts And Cunning | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Once in a while they try the formation in panel four. With the left end over beyond the right end, there are four possible receivers to the right (black arrows) and the defensive alignments are confused. Although the right end is ineligible in such a formation, the left guard (light arrow) could catch a pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Attack Shows Shifts And Cunning | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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