Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December cue. In a sense, that game was a capstone of the Years Between the Wars, of the World as it Used to Be. Before the war engulfed them both, the two schools played one more, as anti-climactic as the other had been a climax, the last gasp of a world that was already dying. Taht year an underdog Crimson eleven saw an upset victory over Yale slip from its fingers in the cold drizzling rain and gathering drakness of the Yale Bowl. That contest was four years and a whole world away from the game this afternoon...
Neither was a great surprise. In its 6½ years the Great Adless Experiment had cost Publisher Marshall Field III more than $4 million. Ingersoll's plaintive plea last June for 100,000 more readers had been generally regarded as a last-gasp try for profits on circulation alone. But circulation last week was just 170,755-only 5,000 more than when Ingersoll cried for help, and nowhere near enough...
...goes into the game when Yale gets the ball. While loyal Eli rooters gasp and clutch each other's coat sleeves, four or five plays are run off from the T-formation, and each time the ball is handed to someone else. Then Levicomesout again...
...salty tang and fishy smell of tiny Grande Rivière (pop. 992) on Quebec's rugged Gaspé coast, something new had been added: an air of progress and prosperity. It showed in little things: new rubber boots on the fishermen; gay colored raincoats on their wives & children. Fat bank accounts told more...
...unrehearsed Bride & Groom program (TIME, Dec. 17), Emcee John Nelson, vimful of interest, asked impending groom Monroe St. John: "Did you propose, or did Jane [Pedley]?" Replied St. John, with a faraway look in his eyes: ". . . We were just lying down on the-" (Emcee Nelson interrupted, in a rapid gasp: "You were sitting this...