Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major casualties among the 300 who gave up: Stanford, Fordham, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgetown. Individualist Harvard decided something was better than nothing, arranged "token" games for its A and B squads with Tufts, Exeter, Andover, Camp Edwards...
...investigation of defense contract brokers. Monroe's trail led them there, and they had high suspicions. Their suspicions were all the Washington press needed. They remembered the "little green house on K Street" where President Harding's Ohio Gang hung out, the "little red house in Georgetown" where the aboriginal New Dealers schemed their schemes. Paced by Columnist Drew Pearson of the Washington Post, the press laid back its ears and bayed. Pages slopped over with heavy headlines...
...Millrose athletes came closest to a world's record. Four times in the past six years Negro Jim Herbert has romped off with this event. Last week he finished on the heels of two collegians: Georgetown's Hugh Short and Michigan's Bob Ufer. Short's winning time (1:10.2) equaled the world indoor mark...
...theorist but a practical fighter, Ben Lear picked Lieut. Colonel William Crowell Saffarrans, chunky onetime Georgetown University football star, longtime Army football coach, to operate the school. His instructions: make it practical, up-to-date as Guadalcanal...
Condé Nast was not born to fashion. He was born in New York of a French mother and German father, grew up in St. Louis, went to Georgetown University, where he managed the baseball team. Classmate Robert Collier hired him to write advertising for Collier's. Nine years later, age 35, risen to business manager, he had built up the magazine's circulation, fattened its skinny advertising, and was making $50,000 a year. That was when he quit...