Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian Reservation at Tama, Iowa, Charlie Davenport took a close look at the squaw corn,† noted that its husks were loose and thin, predicted that the U.S. would have a long Indian summer and that real winter would probably not set in until after Christmas...
...year-old Tackle Alvin Wistert, brother of two former All-Americas. And New York University has a halfback who is 33. At Mississippi, 23-year-old End Barney Poole, once an Army star, is playing his sixth year of varsity football, by grace of weird eligibility rules. At Iowa City, infants on the sidelines watch their fathers laboring through practice. Ten men on Iowa's squad are married...
Line coach Stephen P. Sinko worked under Donelli at Duquesne and helped him mold his famous unbeaten 1941 eleven. During 1944-45 he coached at Iowa Pre-Flight, returning to Duquesne last year as head coach and athletic director...
...That speech, which transformed an Iowa citizen into a citizen of New York and a Secretary of Commerce into an editor of the New Republic, reads even better today than it did a year...
Suggestion. In Bettendorf, Iowa, Used-Car Dealer C. W. Boughton stuck a sign on one of his autos: "Grab It Now!" Cops were soon hunting the thief who did exactly that...