Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ends Harlow has a wealth of candidates, with his three most regular starters, Wally Flynn, John Fiorentino, and Walt Coulson, all returning. Only Howie Houston is likely to retain his job at tackle, but he will have able assistance from big John Gorcynski, former Pitt star, who was here this year but ineligible under the transfer rules. At the guards it will be Emil Drvaric, Nick Rodis, Jim Feinberg, and Bob Drennan battling it out again, while Chuck Glynn is slated for the center slot unless Dewey, who will almost certainly not be at tackle next year in any case...
...lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded government to action. In 1945, a month before the Labor Party came to power, the family allowance plan became...
...impressive aggregations were Kirkland and Leverett. The Deacons, under Pete Igo, Watertown High School coach, were already undertaking a razzle-dazzle lateral passing attack which got off to a ragged start but may bear future watching, while the Bunnies continued to stress fundamental blocking and running plays under former Pitt player Wilbur Newstetter...
Last week, in most U.S. colleges, spring terms had just begun. Pitt was so crowded that classes had to be held on a day & night shift. At Ohio State, wives of faculty members helped teach. Texas Christian University set up geology labs in a gymnasium...
...Magazine. He also became one of Britain's first Parliamentary reporters. Lazy and arrogant, he soon began composing Honorable Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister Pitt's latest speech was the best one that he had ever read, Johnson replied: "I wrote [it] in a garret in Exeter Street." Ten years before the birth of Noah Webster, Johnson went to work on his greatest project, his English dictionary...