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...John Godfrey, one of the two non-lettermen of the starting team is one of the bright spots on the team. A junior who rated low on the pre-season Indian totem pole he has played both ways in almost every game at the other guard post. Alex Athanas, heaviest of the guards at 208 pounds, will spell either Reich or Godfrey on offense...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Veteran Green Team Has 9 Starting Lettermen, Good Potential, One Win | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

...week's end, the Reds ecstatically brought up their heaviest propaganda guns and boomed that the episode was "final proof" of a U.S.-Nazi conspiracy against democrats and for war. The independent Frankfurter Rundschau editorialized: "One would like to assume that the secret American sponsors knew nothing of the assassination plans. However, their support of a fascist underground movement is bound to produce distrust of American officials. We refuse to fight Stalinism with the help of fascism." No one seemed to understand that the U.S. had not been sinister, just silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Caught Red-Handed | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...were all uranium-the heaviest metal-such a sphere would weigh about 460 Ibs., but only a small part (one guess: 24 Ibs.) can be uranium or plutonium. There must be a chemical explosive to start the nuclear reaction, and there may be some empty space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Baby Bombs | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...revision of the "Bible" in 1734 introduced a new form of punishment: the levying of fines. The heaviest tariff--2 pounds, 10 shillings, was exacted for the crime of "tarrying out of town one month without leave." Among others were the usual fines for playing cards, opening doors by picklocks, use of profane speech, frequenting taverns, and entertaining persons of ill repute...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: 'The University Takes a Dim View . . .' | 10/10/1952 | See Source »

Hooton found that most of the Irish that have immigrated to this country come from the western part of the land there and from the lower and upper-most corners. These are the roundheaded, tallest, heaviest and most florid of the race. These are the Irishmen who are quite so often pictured in cartoons and stories as the "big, affable guys with a ready wit and a brawny...

Author: By Howard L. Kastel, | Title: Hooton Writes Study of Ireland; Shatters Many Common Myths | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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