Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoring credit went to outside left Berk Johnson at 5:48 of the second period and to contor forward Bengt Sandberg at 9:05 of the third. But the Yardlings real star was right fullback Charley Ufford, whose long-legged kicking, heading, and tackling almost single-handedly contained Exter's clover attack, which previously had beaten five straight opponents...
...debut, Curley swept the city with a wave of reform that left his critics gasping. He built schools, playgrounds and beaches; he hired new doctors for the city hospital; he extended the transit systems and pulled down old elevated lines, making thousands of jobs. When the banks in Boston refused to lend him money for this spending spree, he bolted traditions and borrowed from banks all over the country. Those were the days when newspaper editorials hailed him as the first great leader to emerge from the Boston Irish...
...again. One reason undoubtedly is that he leaves the city in such a poor financial condition when he is defeated that the burden of reform overwhelms the next mayor. The two men that shared the mayoralty with him during the Twenties, Malcolm E. Nichols and Andrew J. Peters, both left City Hall in near-disgrace while Curley re-emerged as the city's saviour. Maurice J. Tobin, who beat him in 1937 and 1941, seemed to be the only one who could lick the Curley curse; and the moment Tobin went up the political ladder, Curley sneaked in again...
Lowell took the lead in the third quarter when alort left end Gil Martin fell on a Dunster fumble on the kick-off and Irv Karassik made the recovery count with a 40-yard run for a touchdown...
...unfortunate in view of the crowd that the concert, sponsored by the Harvard Department of Music, was not better. Mr. Brown, playing the cello, rarely matched the musicianship of his partner. The Piano part was played by Mr. Simonds in a fashion that left little to be desired. Not only was it technically excellent, but there was enough personality and feeling injected into it to make it brilliant...