Word: levies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defensively, the Badgers were nothing short of superb, blanking the highly geared Yale offense for the first time in 20 consecutive games. Levi Jackson, Ferd Nadherny, and company broke through the stubborn Wisconsin forward wall for a mere 89 yards...
...Without Levi Jackson, Yale's running attack almost disappeared: against the strong Columbia line even powerful Ferd Nadherny could break away only a couple of times. What was amazing was that with no speed threat to worry the New Yorkers' backs and ends, the Elis could complete 17 forward passes (out of 26 thrown) with a beautiful precision that was horrible to watch...
...more in the way of a notable record than did his initial squad in 1935. It was the same old Harlow pattern-merely encouraged a bit thanks to some of the best material seen along the Charles in a decade-and if the trend continues through the current season, Levi Jackson and associates will find the Yale Bowl warmer than it ought to be in late November...
Then his father, a Missouri lawyer, and Professor Ed Levi, of the Chicago Uni versity Law School, began to tell him that he might be heading for trouble. The Atomic Energy Act (which Levi helped to write) is vaguely phrased in spots but it has teeth like a Tyrannosaurus. For one thing, the Act threatens with the death penalty anyone who transmits U.S. atomic secrets to a foreign nation...
Promised Land of Gold Fillings. Not Rome or Naples but New York, says Levi, was the capital city of these poverty-stricken Italians, who lived on an unvarying diet of black bread, garlic, olives, peppers, tomatoes. In 1935, while 1,200 Gaglianoese lived in Gagliano, 2,000 were living in New York. America was simultaneously the Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace...