Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fight for a Capital. In the rugged, snow-covered uplands of northwestern Greece, the Vafiades rebels attacked with 23 battalions, according to government estimates. They seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government garrison in Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from...
...because of probation complications. Second, ace defense man Charlie Coulter is out of the lineup with pneumonia until after Christmas. There, the schedule is the toughest in history: all the league standbys are back, and an imposing roster has been added for a vacation roadtrip. "We ought to beat Northwestern and Brown," Chase says with a wan smile...
...groups, or student employment, or cost of living in college, through occasional meetings of regional executive committees. Results will appear only when NSA has set up machinery for week-by-week, day-by-day contact between its member colleges. And only when it gets results will NSA have proven Northwestern wrong and Harvard right...
...least one major university does not share even this reserved optimism. At Northwestern last week, the student government voted against affiliation, on the grounds that "NSA is not a workable organization and will not do Northwestern any good." The students nonetheless left open the possibility of future participation in NSA, should it "prove successful." Here in two words is the task before NSA. With a few exceptions, such as Northwestern, it has been given the green light. It must now prove successful...
Once again spectators rushed onto the field; once again the referee waved them back. Northwestern had been offside again. This time, nearly four minutes after the game had officially ended, Ohio State tried again, and kicked the game-winning point. Final score: Ohio State 7, Northwestern...