Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth and Philip presented the Eisenhowers with a pair of American parula warblers sculptured in porcelain. Can it be that the Eisenhowers are bird watchers and that these warblers are their favorites? Incidentally, we never see the parula around here. Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance. I used to see them in such nests in the swamps down South...
...Crimson expected the Big Green to rely heavily on the passing combination of Dave Bradley to Dave Moss, but Dartmouth threw only four passes, completing three for 90 yards. Harvard completed eight out of 20 for only 70 yards...
...Dartmouth score which came on a pass, Moss did not figure in the play. Fullback Dave Pratt, who normally fills the role of blocking back in Dart- mouth's "V" formation, was the man who did the pass-catching. Bradley faded back, and as the Harvard defenders fanned out to the left and right to cover the ends, Pratt moved through the line down the middle to the Crimson 15-yard mark, where he gathered in Bradley's pass and then raced the remaining 15 yards to the end zone...
Particularly dangerous in today's contest will be the passing combination of quarterback Dave Bradley and left end Dave Moss. The Crimson has shown glaring weakness on pass defense throughout the first three games, and it is likely that with good weather the Indians will be using the pass frequently. Whether the Crimson wins or loses may well depend on the degree to which Yovicsin has been able to sharpen his defenses during the past week...
Married. Stirling Moss, 28, lean, daring auto-racing ace, first Englishman to win Italy's Mille Miglia; and Katherine Molson, 22, millionheiress daughter of Montreal Brewer F. S. Molson; in London...