Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dayton, Ohio: J. H. Ruggles, 2727 Inland Avenue; Eastern lowa (Cordar Rapids): December 27, Sumner H. Foster '32, 2060 Glass Road NE; Eastern Michigan (Detroit): Clark T. Wells '34, 96 Handy Road, Grosse Point Farms; Eastern New York: December 28, Donald Collins, Education Building, Albany...
...gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones, "but I don't see many pregnant...
...later years, Hoover and Coolidge both employed ghostly assistance. And in his campaign speeches, Warren Harding had the help of a rising young ghost, Arthur Vandenberg, then editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. Today, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg is one of the few who fashion their own rolling periods unaided...
...team's 18-game schedule shows a preponderance of matches with nearby schools; but these teams are all "pretty good," according to Chase's pre-season sizeups. A Christmas trip west, with games against Minnesota and Michigan, had been planned, but the steel strike held up completion of Minnesota's new rink which the Crimson was to have helped inaugurate. So the junket was called...
Pass protection and fumbles raise another point. Michigan operates from a system which has just as many spinners, fakes, handoffs, and laterals as does Valpey's. Michigan does not fumble; Harvard does. This would seem to indicate that the quality of personnel had something to do with the matter. This writer has the deepest respect and admiration for the work done by Harvard's players this fall, but the fact remains that week after week they met teams composed of more gifted athletes. As to pass protection, the failure here, as Fish would undoubtedly agree if he knew Valpey...