Word: longs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown seemed to take everyone by surprise. Joe Paterno's short pass to Frank Mahoney and his long one to Chuck Nelson covered 67 yards altogether, and it was a simple thing for Paterno to sneak over from the three-yard line...
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...whatever the cause, as long as there are so few copies of books that so many people want to read, the library will always have a tough time keeping these books available...
...attack on the first level of objection, there is the question of which would you rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with...
Sometimes Thomas' investigations are long and painstaking. In the case of his cover story on Toscanini (TIME, April 26, 1948), he had had two years in which to become intimately familiar with the great conductor's work. The National Broadcasting Company studios are just across the street from the TIME & LIFE building, and Thomas used to run over for Thursday afternoon rehearsals of Toscanini's NBC orchestra. There, in the control room, Thomas had a rare musician's-eye view of Toscanini at work and an unequaled chance to note his careful preparation, his humor...