Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quentin Styles will be plunking from one of the guard slots with his distinctive fast, low, long shot. His fast, deceptive passing should prove invaluable in breaking the opponent's defense. Tricky Fred Wegner from Southbend, Indiana, will fill the other guard position. Except for Pankey he is the fastest and most ubiquitous man on the team...
...terror started in October with the kidnaping of a young girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...
Elsewhere election results added up to no trends. Of three congressional seats, the G.O.P. filled vacancies in Ohio and Indiana which had been previously held by Republicans, and in New York the Democrats kept control of the 14th District. Thousands of state legislature and city elections seesawed to a near standoff, with a slight edge for the Democrats, who registered gains in Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York...
...hadn't always been a rivalry that packed Yankee Stadium with violent partisans who had gone to neither school, and paid up to $100 a seat to act as if they were charter alumni. When it first visited West Point in 1913, Notre Dame was an unsung little Indiana college. In those days spectators got in free, Notre Dame got $1,000 guarantee for the trip and cleared $83 profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre Dame...
...spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself...