Word: lot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of pre-season scrimmages and a lot of hard work have produced considerable evidence that Coach Norm Shepard's varsity basketball team will do far better than last year's hapless squad...
...practice games against very competent MIT quintets went to the varsity by comfortable scores. Its daily practices, according to Shepard, "have showed that we have a lot of good material...
Shepard has been teaching his men fundamentals, methodically recording the progress of each member of his 21-man squad. "I grade 'em all just like a professor would," drawls the former Davidson College coach. "They've been showing a lot of improvement...
None of the positions are fixed as yet, Shepard emphasizes, and he expects to make further changes as game experience affects his team. He feels that his charges stack up quite a bit better than his Davidson squads, but points out that he has "a lot more material to draw on in a school this size...
...cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy Easterner) are in love with one girl, and she is a spoiled brat who turns out all right...