Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia can play a waiting game, the professor believes, feeding supplies to both sides and hoping that the resulting exhaustion of both sides will pave the way for communism in Central Europe...
...Coleman will undoubtedly get the call at quarterback, but the other three positions are wide open. Captain Torbie Macdonald, Frannie Loe, Joe Gardella, George Heiden, and Charley Spreyer are all equally well at home in more than one backfield assignment. Weather conditions at 1:45 o'clock Saturday may play a big part in determining the starting Crimson ball-carrying quartet...
...starting ends Brownie Brinckley and Al Burtholemy, usually play a floating rather than a smashing game. The thought of Macdonald catching them flat-footed and scooting around them on reverses is apt to make them even more wary. Harvard's attack should be able to function for a succession of short gains even if there are no long touchdown dashes...
...Harvard Medical Staff expected Macdonald to play against Army until he was stricken with an attack of acute abdominal pain on Wednesday night, November 8." On Thursday morning he was sent to Stillman Infirmary with an elevated blood count, appendicitis being suspected. "He was discharged from the Infirmary Friday afternoon, but the Harvard Medical Staff decided his physical condition was not such as to warrant his playing against Army...
...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...