Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't cost Mr. Fairless a nickel of his own to agree that every steelworker have a mansion, a yacht and an ulcer . . . The bill for the welfare plan will finally be passed along to that great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have...
...only consequence of the next set of downs was a great leaping catch of a Noonan pass by Stretch Mazzone, who was injured on the play and removed for the afternoon. Noonan then fumbled for the second time on his 27. Three plays--a run by Jack Martin, a pass from Bob Blaik to Vic Pollock, and a seven-yard plunge by Pollock--made the score 27 to 0. Mackmull converted...
...next week, Harvard played Army. Since the Dartmouth Medley had met with great crowd approval, Anderson decided to present another. He took a tune from the George Gershwin hit musical "Of Thee I Sing", mixed in well-known melodies from Ivy League college songs, and produced "Wintergreen." It met with so much success that it has since become the closest thing to a theme song the band has in its repertoire...
...instance, the locals showed in spang new leather suits which thoroughly surprised everyone. And one year they showed up with Percy Haughton, a great punter and an even greater coach...
Blaik has had to do nothing to bolster his offensive team. It has a great first unit and excellent reserves, so excellent that though fullback Gil Stephenson indulged in but two plays against Michigan, his presence was not particularly missed. We can compare this with a Harvard team without Howie Houston--as was the case at Columbia--and come to a horrifying conclusion...