Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chances are reasonably good that one team will emerge with its first victory after five unsuccessful starts apiece. There has been just one tie since the series started--the only game in which both teams failed to score. Harvard has won the last three games in the series but the margin of victory was just one touchdown in each ease...
What stopped Curley from being a good governor was his attempt to gain power enough to form a state machine without setting up an efficient organization to do it. He tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded...
Potentially, the Crusaders have a powerful, tricky attack which features the running of Mel Massucco and John Turco and the passing of Jim Murphy, Paul Gallo, and Frank Matrango. Gallo, also a good runner, has experienced some difficulty in handling the T quarterback assignments so Matrango was shifted to that position last Tuesday...
...maintain that they've had as much to do as anyone in the politics cleanup. The CCA, they complain, is trying to claim all credit for the recent improvements and they hint that the CCA is nothing more than an embryo city political machine hiding behind a shield of good deeds. Many independents also want to scrap proportional representation...
Because of the large number of candidates that filed each year under the new Plan--over 100 in 1941, for example--a number of residents decided to form a good government group, which would endorse certain candidates for each election. Corresponding closely in makeup to the old Plan E Committee, the Cambridge Civic Association was incorporated...