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Word: gray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Floyd Stahl last year, Barclay stresses the basic basketball facts. But unlike Stahl, who found himself graced with one of the country's aces in Wyndol Gray, the Coach finds himself with a group of men who, although good material, present he outstanding star to hold the team together. Stress will therefore be on ballhandling, layup shots, and close plays, instead of the more individualistic floor shooting and fancy dribbling that featured last year's five...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

...managers expressed it yesterday, the idea this year will be to work the ball under the basket by well-integrated plays, "so that any member of the team can take any shot called for." This may not be so exciting as seeing Wyndol Gray take a favorite one hand flip shot, but the general opinion around the coaching bench is that more integrated team play is the kind of ball best suited to the present material...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

After being introduced by Theodore Morrison '23, Director of English A, the gray-haired poet proceeded to discuss the fears which affect a man's life. Fear of God and fear of man are the main types, and they are both similar in that the individual is afraid that his "best efforts" will not be accepted, said Frost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frost's Recital Draws lecture Hall Capacity | 11/15/1946 | See Source »

Most of the recital, which was sponsored by the Morris Gray fund, was devoted to the reading of Frost's most recent poems which will be printed in a book to be published this spring. However Frost's recital of his older, more familiar works was so well received that when e recited "Birches" for an encore he paused to remarked, " don't want you to act as if the new ones aren't as good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frost's Recital Draws lecture Hall Capacity | 11/15/1946 | See Source »

With the football season came the weekends of the Big Game and the dance in the college gym or the local ballroom afterwards. The collegiate circuit, which had brought many a big-money dance band (Glen Gray, the late Glenn Miller) to the top, was in full swing. This season a new face, and a surprisingly young one, had cornered the market: 21-year-old Elliot Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple Moodmaker | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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