Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following men make up the squad: W. R. Arnold '44, R. P. Emerson '43, N. N. Griffith '42, J. S. Jillson '44, R. B. Kent '44, W. C. Palson '44, F. W. Phinney '43, A. J. Pifer '44, C. H. Robbins '42, K. T. Rogers '42, J. Jopka '43, G. H. Stewart '42, H. C. Tuttle '43, D. K. Webster '44, R. J. Mead '44, T. Coggeshall '44, J. S. Browne '44, W. S. Ellis '44, S. H. Noon '43, S. S. Poland '44, G. J. Lyons '42, F. C. Scott '43, W. A. Rich '44, E. J. Sullivan...
...been the biggest news in U.S. sport. Radio programs were interrupted for Di Maggio bulletins. Crowds jammed the ball parks where he played. Three days before, when he broke the modern record of 41, set by George Sisler in 1922, 31,000 parboiled fans crammed into Washington's Griffith Stadium. Day before, when he tied Keeler's all-time major-league record,* there were 53,000 in the Yankee Stadium...
Some of them remembered the remark of canny Clark Griffith, baseball's Old Fox: "Trying to choose between Cobb and Ruth is like trying to choose between two $20 gold pieces...
...Washington's Griffith Stadium one night last week 25,000 fight fans yelled themselves limp. It was the first round of Washington's first world-championship heavyweight fight, and there, hanging over the ropes head first, was Joe Louis, the champ. The boxer who had dumped him on to the ring apron was 25-year-old Buddy Baer, baby brother of onetime
...engineer named Dr. Paul J. Raver, who became BPA administrator in 1939. Dr. Raver's ambition is to put every kilowatt in the Northwest under public ownership. Backed by the White House and his two titanic dams, he has moved steadily toward this end. Said President Franklin Thomas Griffith of Portland General Electric Co.: "It is axiomatic that no private utility can compete with the Treasury...