Word: gerard
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Ordinarily, the sort of line Columbia has shouldn't worry anybody but the opposition. The Lions have such capable ends as Gerard Cozzi, Wes (Boom) Bomm, and the Ward boys, Al and Leo. They have massive tackles on the order of George Vitone and Bill Wallace. They have Don Trevisano and Gerry Audette, powerful guards. And they have three lettermen at center...
...types: 1) individual scrip, issued in each case by a special act of Congress to individuals for services to the Union, e.g., Joseph Gerard, who was killed by Indians in 1792 while carrying a message for the U.S.; 2) land exchange scrip, issued when private land was swallowed up by creation of national forests, etc.; 3) soldiers' additional rights, issued in 1874 and later, granting additional land to Civil War veterans who had already started homesteads...
Died. James Watson Gerard, 84, topflight corporation lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I (1913-17); of a bronchial ailment; in Southampton, N.Y. A conservative Democrat, he came, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, from a wealthy old New York family, pleased his countrymen by his brass-knuckled attitude toward Germany's haughty World War I diplomats. When one of them warned that 500,000 Germans in America would rise up if the U.S. entered the war, Gerard coldly replied that the U.S. had 500,000 lampposts from which to hang them. When the U.S. entered...
...Netherlands, Golfer Gerard de Wit is in a class by himself, has won the professional championship five times. Last month he had his first look at tournament golf, U.S. style. Back in The Hague last week, still a little dazed by it all, he told his countrymen about Chicago's "world championship" tournament (in which he finished last, with a four-round total...
...Mozart's comic opera, Cosi fan tutte (last Met performance: 1928), will be redone from scratch-also in English-with new sets by Rolf (Don Carlo, Fledermaus) Gerard. Stage director: Broadway star Alfred Lunt...