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Word: got (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who administer the Marshall Plan in Paris got a shock last week. They had hired a French public opinion expert in July to poll his country on what it thought of American aid, and last week he made his report. According to this poll, most of the French hadn't heard of the Marshall Plan, and those who had didn't particularly like...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...like to assert that I am as great a sports fan as anyone at Harvard. I had spent more time playing sports than I had eating, attending school, seeing movies, shows, etc., reading, riding on bicycles, cars, trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only recently I was warned that my basketball playing was liable to injure my health--I took basketball as Freshman physical training while it was available. Any plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...professional sports, in theory anyway. Sports in college, therefore, is a diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Traditional shenanigans were absent yesterday as the annual Freshman Smoker Committee election got off to a slow start. With balloting to be held on Friday--commuters also vote Thursday--only three candidates of the 18 running had created any excitement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noise Absent as Smoker Election Campaign Begins | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

After losing a disappointingly close game to Navy last Saturday, the varsity quintet goes back to the Garden tonight to face a fast BC squad. The varsity got off slowly against the Midshipmen, and a 39 point second half was not enough to put away the game...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Varsity Cagers Meet Fast Eagles in Garden Tonight | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

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