Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhode Island's old (80) Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green cried that the accusations were based on "nothing more than gossip." The hearing was getting hotly political when Stassen asked to be excused: he had to go make a political speech in Missouri. In the corridor, he walked past glowering General Graham, who would have his say on the witness stand this week. They did not speak...
Changes in the rules for 1948 will be announced tonight by the National Football Rules Committee now meeting on Wilmington Island near Savannah under the chairmanship of William J. Bingham '16, president of the H.A.A...
...begun to stir feebly after a record 25.8 inch snowfall (TIME, Jan. 5) when the second storm hit. Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken high-tension wires...
...been lightened. St. Louis hired a new coach, Edgar Hickey, who installed the fast-break system and designed plays to take some of the point-making pressure off Big Ed Macauley. With improved teamwork, St. Louis has breezed past seven rivals. If the next three-Oklahoma A. & M., Long Island University and Notre Dame-can be hurdled, the worst will be over...
Harlow was first laid low by his high blood pressure while serving as a lieutenant, commander in the Navy on Midway-Island in 1943. After spending all of 1944 in various naval hospitals, he was finally discharged for disability...