Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no definite idea of a starting team and only four days to come up with one, Freshman football coach Henry Lamar has plenty on his mind this week. Out of 36 or more good-looking grid prospects he must by Saturday manufacture a squad for the opener against a polished Andover eleven...
...Committee was included to discard any project, however worthy, which did not give promise of performanence or which might be diverted from the original purpose for which it was intended. The Committee had in mind Memorial Hall and the Union...
Senator Saltonstall's group undeniably has worked faithfully and has sacrificed valuable time to arrive at its recommendation. But when the Alumni Associations and the Associated Harvard Clubs set up the group in 1947, it appeared that they had much more in mind than a $50,000 inscription. Such a plaque would scarcely be appropriate as a memorial to the men that Harvard lost in World War II. Officers of the alumni groups should without failurge the Saltonstall Committee to meet again. And the Committee should reconsider proposals for a more fitting memorial...
...with the U.S. at war, DiMaggio made up his mind to join up. He was 28 and married, and his draft board had classified him in 3-A. He went in voluntarily, became Private J. DiMaggio, U.S. Army Air Forces. In the Air Forces, he put in three years' service in the physical training program for flight cadets. He rose to staff sergeant. Joe had one hitch in Hawaii during 1944; otherwise he was not overseas. He had a chance to play in a couple of exhibition games, entertaining troops, but that was all the baseball...
...callous by rude encounters with the multitude. But living in solitude till the fullness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart. I used to think I could imagine all passions, all feelings, and states of the heart and mind; but how little did I know! Indeed we are but shadows; we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream-till the heart be touched...