Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this timetable, these rules were a phantom strike; it could never be allowed to happen. The very names on the list of railroads told why. In those names, like native U.S. poetry, was the story of how the U.S. was built...
...more pay and the 7½% offered by the President's fact-finding board (last cog of the mediation machinery provided by law), there was a gap as wide as a roundhouse door. But nobody, not even the men who planned to strike, wanted the strike to happen. They were certain, with the sureness of hope, that it would not happen...
...Nelson did not say that it would happen. He merely said that it may happen. The newspapers buried his words on an inside page. The Average Citizen, his breath dubious, dandruff scales on his shoulders, his feet hurting, his son in the Army, his paycheck riddled by taxes, charities and higher prices, his dinner cold and leftover because his wife was out British-Bundling or Red-Crossing, picked up his newspaper, mechanically noted that, as usual, things would soon be worse, and turned to the football scores...
...sports writers too have joined the coaches in crying wolf at every turn, so that there can be no doubt but that both teams are well-aware that anything can happen in a Harvard-Yale game, prevailing Minneapolis odds to the contrary...
...defeated, so has Stanford and Harvard is improving faster than any other team in the East, while the other big once are fading away, except Notre Dame and Minnesota which are out of the Rose Bowl picture anyhow. The way the Lone Star State teams are behaving, anything may happen in Texas before they clean up their regular schedules. Harvard would certainly satisfy any scholastic scruples Stanford might feel about an opponent. Moreover, Harvard has been here once, so that disposes of the matter of precedent smashing. Rah for HAR-VARD...