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Word: michiganisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drug to cure human ailments, it proved worthless. The Upjohn Co. gave the new drug to the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at East Lansing to see what effect it had on plants. In strong solutions, it killed young bean and oat seedlings. Apparently actidione was good for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Antibiotic for Plants | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...games--big time football games. That's why the blackboard outside the varsity dressing room each fall Saturday carries not strictly scores of Ivy League games, but those of big games throughout the country. He's never said it, but you get the idea that the day Harvard beats Michigan is a bright and not too distant day in Art's plans...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Joined Michigan Staff...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...business, efficiency and thoroughness pays off. Art has thought that way ever since he definitely decided to become a football coach in 1941. At the time, he was only a few hours from his Master's degree at Michigan, but he dropped work on the degree because he figured it would be of little use to him in his new business...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...following year he returned to Michigan, where he had played first string end in '36 and '37, and became a member of Crisler's coaching staff. "My whole idea was to get experience at the various coaching positions," Art says. The next five years were spent in preparation for the business of football with Crisler as tutor...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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