Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimifz went the honorary rank of chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan and the aboriginal monicker Be-Lea-Nage (The Winner). And to the nation from the Admiral went an announcement: he would retire from active duty around the middle of December...
...Evanston, ΙΙΙ., Michigan, the nation's top rated team, with hardly a huff or puff, blew Northwestern down, 49-21. ¶At South Bend, Notre Dame, with Star Johnny Lujack under wraps for most of the game, trounced Nebraska, 31-0. Illinois met Minnesota at Champaign, ΙΙΙ., in the week's only big game between unbeaten teams, and Minnesota lost, 40-13. The South's three best unbeaten teams, Texas, Southern Methodist and Georgia Tech, had no trouble keeping their escutcheons unsmudged...
...house painting, lumber stacking and window dressing, finally married a girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...
...nation's top football teams, Michigan emerged from last week's scrimmaging soundest in wind & limb. In fact, it looked as if Coach Fritz Crisler's men could get a better battle by playing their own second team than they could from anyone they had faced so far. The Michiganders embarrassed poor Pittsburgh, 69 to 0. In its first three games, Michigan has scored 173 points to 13 for its opponents...
...Dallas, the University of Texas, rated third in the Associated Press poll after Notre Dame and Michigan, was likewise outrushed by a bruising Oklahoma team, but won. The score: 34 to 14. The hero: sure-armed Bobby Layne, whose throws figured in all of the Texas touchdowns. It was the week's rowdiest game. Oklahoma rooters threw pop bottles and went after the officials, who had to be whisked off the field in a police...