Word: lege
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawrence would be off to college in September and Mary would be ready for col lege in two years...
...Waterfield is fresh out of col lege. He started being a football hero at Van Nuys (Calif.) High School, where he met a well-stacked, laughing-eyed girl named Jane Russell. At U.C.L.A. he soon became a standout - and a constant source of worry to his teammates, who feared that Howard Hughes's actress "find" was distracting Bob's mind from football. Jane notwithstanding (he married her in 1943), Bob was the star of the 1942 U.C.L.A...
Life with Father. "Don't you let them get you down," urged a col lege friend, after "Putrid" Woollcott (also known as "Slimer") had been tossed into the campus fountain for the ump teenth time. "You're going to be a greater [Samuel] Johnson." Young Woollcott agreed - though there is no evidence that he ever had the slightest conception of what macte Samuel...
Bill Miller had no chance to be a col lege athlete: he quit grammar school to help support his family. By 1938 he had an oil company soft job and a reputation as a crack basketball coach. Teams coached by him and his disciples won nine national championships in ten years. A onetime player himself, Miller concluded that the trouble with most coaches is that they teach the game but ignore the control of the body. Body control became Bill Miller's religion. He resigned to preach his faith full time...
...Morris Brown and North Carolina Col lege for Negroes, both undefeated and untied, will face one another in the third annual Peach Blossom Bowl (for Negro colleges) at Columbus...