Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Americans in the U.S. now cared about the progress of their defeated enemy toward this goal was demonstrated by a Constitution Day incident: NBC Correspondent George Thomas Folster had arranged a tradition-shattering exclusive "live" broadcast of the Emperor's message, urged it on his New York office. Cabled back NBC: "Can't use Hirohito...
...upset of the week. Twice-beaten Princeton slew Pennsylvania, the Goliath of the Ivy League, 17-14. After the game, elated Princeton rooters tried to carry away the goal posts, and had to be deterred by the cops...
...touchdown, Caldwell rushed a sub into the game with instructions to switch to the "wide six" defense. Penn's march slowed to marking time, and one minute before game's end, Princeton's Ken Keuffel broke a 14-14 tie with a 19-yd. field goal...
...Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed to have set themselves the goal of being local New Yorkers...
...shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...