Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Cochrane jumped on a bad Eliot center in the first period to give Lowell the ball on the 2. A Slight penalty meant nothing to Joe "The Masked Marvel" Lyford, who smashed off tackle on the first play to score standing...
...Michigan game last Saturday proved nothing else, it proved that the widely heralded Michigan Band really is the marvel it is supposed to be, and that in point of execution the Harvard Band cannot hold a candle to it. Certainly the Michigan Band, subsidized by the Buick Company and fostered by the University, has reason for being so good; nonetheless, my cars at least were amazed by its technical brilliance. Besides a hair-trigger synchronization, Michigan boasts a set of trumpets which for clarity, bite, and precision are near tops among all college bands. By comparison the Harvard Band sounds...
...Lahey did not have the heart to operate on this intact marvel. He had it carted away and photographed...
...Metropole in Vienna. *"To pay $20 or $25 a bottle for what is known . . . as 'original Chartreuse' (that manufactured before the expulsion from France of the Pères Chartreux) is . . . to pay a matter of $15 for a superiority which simply does not exist" (Schoonmaker and Marvel, The Complete Wine Book...
Most people outside of Pennsylvania never heard of Mr. Walter until last week. Then they heard less about him than about his Walter-Logan Bill (cosponsor: Kentucky's late Senator Marvel Mills Logan) and its tempestuous passage through the House. They heard nothing about a Kentucky colonel who had more to do with the bill than Mr. Walter did. The colonel: Ollie Roscoe McGuire, chairman of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Administrative Law, and a viewer-with-alarm of U. S. bureaucracy...