Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry S. Truman turns the alternatives over in his mind, election consideration without doubt will play an abnormally large part in the decision. Labor, in danger of losing the legal rights accumulated in the last fourteen years, has played this argument for all it is worth. Though Truman may not get a second term, even with labor's support, his party will have little chance murmuring a faint echo of the Republican song. But to come out strongly is to run a great political risk in a country that gives strong indications that it wants to return to the decepive...
...cultural event in Columbus, Ohio, was the world premiere of A Moon for the Misbegotten, new play...
Despite Boston sportscribes like Dave Egan, who continued to scream editorially about what he called "the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvards. . . here in a corner of the country where college (athletes) are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs," the Crimson athletic situation was looking up this past year...
...Varsity five made a dramatic exit later on in the Arena, however, when it handed Yale a 46 to 42 defeat, thanks to three points by substitute forward Jack Noble in the last 52 seconds of play. The winter track team choked the Buildog 55 to 45 at New Haven...
...have utterly failed to attack one of the most heinous practices in this fair land of ours. What is it, you may ask with a sneer. Of course it is the custom of the intentional pass--in baseball. Now listen: I enjoy baseball, love to see the Red Sox play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that I can predict a play is not enough...