Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing without the services of high-scoring forward Wyndol Gray, the Varsity basketball team scored a smashing upset over a highly-touted Quonset Naval Air Station outfit, and then went on to swamp Boston University for the second time. In so doing, it proved beyond any doubt that it is not a one-man team, but a talented and well-integrated machine which more than deserves its reputation as the best in Crimson history...
Once, in the midst of his crowded week, the President took time to fulfill a routine political obligation. He wrote to James M. Pendergast, of Kansas City: "Dear Jim, I am enclosing a check for $6 in payment of my Jackson Democratic Club dues. I hope the outfit is still going good. Sincerely yours-Harry...
...outfit" to which the President paid his dues was once the notorious and corrupt machine of old Boss Tom Pendergast; James M. Pendergast is Tom's nephew and political heir...
...rousing scorefest that ran just about true to form, a powerful Dartmouth hockey team took the Crimson skaters into camp by a score of 14 to 5 at the Boston Arena Friday night. It was the old, old story of an experienced, rugged outfit pitted against an undeveloped, younger one, and let it be to the credit of Johnny Chase's men that they managed to punch out five markers against the stiff Indian defense...
...five cardinals-designate had been outfitted in hand-me-downs. Because Vatican tailors, faced with Italy's shortage of silks and gold braid, could outfit only twelve of the 32 new cardinals completely the American archbishops and Bishop Tien drew on the wardrobes of the late Cardinals Mundelein, O'Connell anc Hayes. But the Pope would provide the red hats-a personal gift-as well as the topaz rings that are the badge of office...