Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years ago, the University of Notre Dame campus experienced the nearest thing to an earthquake it had known in 107 years of history. By order of suave, iron-willed Football Coach Frank Leahy, the revered Notre Dame shift, perfected by the great Knute Rockne and immortalized by such Notre Dame heroes as Christy Flanagan and the Four Horsemen, was unceremoniously junked. To replace it, Leahy wheeled in the T-formation...
...Opposite. To the layman, the wonder of modern T-football is that anybody but a mathematical quiz-kid can comprehend it, much less play it. At Notre Dame, even the basic quick-opener, known as "43" or "the bread & butter play" (see chart), has a maze of variations. When the Notre Dame quarterback has called the play number ("43" signifies that the "No. 4" back is to ram through the "No. 3" hole) and the team has swung out of the huddle, Leahy's tackles have about two seconds to size up the position of the defensive team...
...current Bacteriological Reviews, Dr. Paul F. Clark of the University of Wisconsin's Medical School and five fellow bacteriologists summarize all that is known today, mostly based on experiments with animals, about the effect of diet on infectious disease. Their summation: sometimes diet helps, sometimes...
Died. George Washington Mitchell, 70, Negro doorman at the U.S. embassy in Paris. An embassy landmark for quarter of a century, Mitchell went to Europe more than 50 years ago with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, stayed on to become known to thousands of traveling Americans and visiting statesmen...
...Patrick's Day, Mrs. Berger has a recipe for cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...