Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irishman No. I is Ed McKeever, who has stepped into the sizable coaching shoes of Frank Leahy (now a Navy lieutenant) and found them a perfect fit. Once before, in 1942, he subbed for Leahy and steered Notre Dame to victories over Stanford, Iowa Pre-Flight and Illinois. That time, he admits, he was so scared the kids had to calm him down. This time, the happy-go-lucky Texan (he played for Texas Tech) has half-kidded, half-finessed his man-sized freshmen into blocking and tackling the way Knute Rockne's veterans once...
...final four-game series with the Yankees was a perfect example of how the amazing Browns had done it. They turned 22 hits into twelve runs for four straight wins, while the New Yorkers produced only three runs on 25 hits. Sewell's boys might be seventh in league batting, but they were in a class by themselves when it came to clutch hitting...
Pocket-size books save on paper, composition, binding (many are glued, or "perfect bound" like telephone books, rather than stitched). But the big difference comes in spreading out the production cost. A $2.50 book (normal printing: 10,000) may cost 40? to produce, a 25? book (normal printing...
Almost to a woman, the Washington women's press corps uprose in indignation. They declared they had never seen or heard of such a list, swore that few Congressmen are less than perfect gentlemen, said that the articles had made their work harder by making Congressmen afraid to be alone with them. They were even more curious than indignant when the author of the unsigned stories turned out to be plump, bespectacled Post Reporter Mary Spargo, onetime investigator for the Dies Committee...
...decided to send part of his squadron home, leaving a few ships just in case the other Japanese boats did arrive. And just 20 minutes after the hour the captured officer had named, around the bend came a string of barges, perfect setup for another attack. The Jap had been telling the truth...