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Andy Muldoon dropped back into the end zone as he took the pas from center, and flipped a short screen pass over the charging green forward wall to Sto Bell, who galloped all the way behind a thundering herd of nine Deacons. Bell then booted the conversion to account for all the scoring in the contest...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Deacons Capture House Grid Title, Clip Bunnies, 7-0 | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

...Granz's herd will undoubtedly put on a well rehearsed, intelligently organized performance with all the polish to be expected of professionals. But not everyone in the audience tonight will enjoy it. The re boppers will like it whole-heartedly and stamp their feet for more at the end, the antiquarians will view it all with detached amusement, but the gentler souls will spend most of the time nervously looking around for the nearest exits...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz jr., | Title: Jazz | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

...Communist Party is ... a tiny, privileged ruling class marked off from the great herd it governs as sharply as any ruling class in history. It attracts the ablest and most ambitious men, because it is the only ladder to power and to all the dignities that go with it. It also attracts some sly scoundrels, but these I believe are rather rare exceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road Back | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Gazelle Boy, said the U.P.-and here's an eye-witness story by his captor, one Prince Fawaz el Shaalan. A lot of U.S. newspapers and magazines* printed the picture with goggle-eyed captions telling how a jeepload of hunters had cut him out of a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gazelle Talk | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...life has changed, and to Author Stewart's way of thinking, the epochal events are those which changed it most, not those which made the biggest noise. The rise & fall of the Roman Empire? Probably less significant than the domestication of sheep, for when Man first learned to herd (about 10,000 B.C.) he revolutionized his ways as Roman roads and swords never did. The invention of printing? Important, says Stewart, by now hip-deep in the materialistic approach, but that of the water wheel was probably more important still. The Greeks? "A great deal of nonsense has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remodeled Ape | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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