Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like several other historians of the period, Sherwood himself was on the inside track in World War II. He was head of the Overseas Branch of OWI; as one of Roosevelt's speech writers for five years, he frequently lived at the White House, heard plenty and knew F.D.R.'s mind. Besides being on the inside track, he had a head start: the use of 40 filing cabinets of papers left by Hopkins...
Then, with ten minutes gone in the first period, the Varsity caught fire. Every time it got the ball it made a sustained march. The trend started in the first half; in the second half it was more than a trend; Brown no longer had a chance...
Brown brought a little black bear to the Stadium Saturday. The little black bear romped up and down the sidelines for one period, ate immense quantities of honey between the halves, and slept peacefully on the 30-yard line while its big Brown brothers were being shredded in the second half...
...deathlike pall of silence which usually envelops the Soldiers Field press lounge raised briefly in the second period when Vern Miller (he weighed 295 after the Yale game in 1941) hoisted himself over the railing and out onto the narrow ledge to retrieve a wandering page of copy. It looked for a minute as if Vern planned a quick trip to the playing field, but he cased his form back over the groaning rail without mishap...
...freshman football team joined in Saturday afternoon's slaughter of the Brown bear by staging a late fourth period rally which toppled the Bruin yearlings 20 to 12, in the mud of Soldiers Field...