Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rankin was also at odds with the government. Not content with mere New Dealers, he jumped on Secretary of War Stimson, crying that Communists had been allowed to obtain commissions in the Army. He demanded Stimson's resignation, and put up the name of General George Patton for the job. The government, however, found it wise to disregard not only this piece of advice, but a staggeringly high percentage of the other suggestions Rankin offered in his brief tenure as de facto chairman of Dies' committee. In 1946, the Republican scoop displaced the Mississippian in favor of J. Parnell Thomas...
...undoubtedly mere coincidence that Harvard came out on the short end of these myopic lapses, but nevertheless such events have the worst possible effect on amateur athletics. It was lax officiating that led to the unpleasant and bloody Moher incident in the Harvard-Yale hockey game in February, and there is still a good deal of bad feeling about some of the calls in the Yale football game last year...
...Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character and detail...
...ground, Harvard gained mere yardage than Villanova and Illinois combined, in the air, they equaled Army's passing offerts. Charlie Roche's punts averaged ten yards better than walt Vanney...
Physical education is also an integral part of the Cadet's training, and is not looked on as a mere form of recreation. Sports are compulsory all year round for every man, on the proven theory that good athletes make good officers. The authorities have found that five times as many cadet officers come from the top ten percent in physical aptitude as from the bottom ten, while almost all maladjustments come from the physically inept. The cynical believe that West Point's uniformly excellent athletic teams are a cause, rather than an effect, of the theory behind them, while...