Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
Since Labor Day the squad has been in training on the college campus which is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a hill 1,000 feet above sea level. Situated half-way between Baltimore, Maryland, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Western Maryland College overlooks the town of Westminster on the east and gives a 40-mile view west to the mountains. Men have come from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to get into condition for a season of stiff competition, Most of last year's team, which had the best record in the state, has returned...
When he was going to school, the President said, there was a discussion of the Battle of Gettysburg and a bright young man stated all the moves that should have been made by General Lee and by General Meade. The old professor said: "Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the greatest general's forethought...
...Dodger fans that game looked like the season's Gettysburg, complete with Pickett's charge, valiant but in vain. The Dodgers swept the series, and ran their winning streak to 13 games before losing three straight to the Cubs. At week's end they were still seven games out front. (On the same day last year the Cards were 1½ games behind...
...Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia's 85-year-old President Emeritus Nicholas Murray Butler had no doubts about the matter. Said he: "General Eisenhower's great ability . . . in dealing with world problems [is] precisely what the world needs today in the administration of a great university...