Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been fired. He said rather bravely, in his St. Louis hotel room last night, that there were a lot of nice people at Harvard and he like working here. Whether he believes this doesn't matter; but it is important that this successor believe it. Rumors that Josh Williams will get the post seem to imply that Harvard wants to keep its football small-time and doesn't mind if it loses a game now and then. If Williams gets the post, it will be going to a home-trained man, not an imported professional, and that would...
Harold M. (Josh) Williams will almost certainly be named as Harvard's twenty-first football coach this afternoon. He would succeed Lloyd P. Jordan, whose dismissal has been asked by the powerful Faculty Committee on Athletics...
Ohio State's Glenn Davis, 22, skimmed the 400-meter hurdles in a casual 50.1 sec. victory. Right behind him came Texas' Eddie Southern, 18, and the Marines' Josh Culbreath, 24, to give the U.S. a sweep of the first three places. Outside the main stadium, but earning points that counted for as much, Bantamweight Charles Vinci of York, Pa. hoisted 753.5 Ibs. aloft and Featherweight Isaac Berger of Brooklyn lifted 776.5 Ibs. to corral another pair of gold medals...
...story tells what happened to a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the Civil War. The big question: If the Rebels come raiding, can the Friends, in all conscience, fight? Mother (Dorothy McGuire) says no, but then she is a prim old bim who says no to everything. Josh Birdwell (Anthony Perkins), the elder son. is otherwise inclined: "Would you stand by while, others die to protect you?'' Father (Gary Cooper) doesn't rightly know his own mind, but this he does allow: "Man's life ain't wuth a hill uh beans, less...
...trials, the world record of 0:50.4 was held by Russia's Yuriy Lituyev. Forty-nine and a half seconds later, two Americans had broken it and a third had tied it. The finish: Glenn Davis of Ohio State, University of Texas' Eddie Southern, and Josh Culbreath of Maryland's Morgan State College and the U.S. Marines...