Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parrot the old story . . . about "trouble" that Collier's had with a football article in 1941 . . . I tilted at the hypocrisy of college football . . . [using] the University of Alabama as the case in point . . . Collier's conceded two insignificant errors, not in the basic facts, but in the dramatic trimmings. I conceded nothing...
Derevyanko's letter accused MacArthur of permitting the Japanese government to balk democratization of the country by (among other things) crushing human rights with police brutality. Derevyanko's case in point consisted of a series of minor riots last month during which a trade-unionist demonstrator was killed in a clash with Japanese police. Replied MacArthur...
...since it takes two to produce one, the average '24 man and his wife are .26 below scratch. And, if a Harvard man were to marry the average Radcliffe girl, (who seems to be able to produce a measly 1.35 children) the danger, or extinction point, might well be approached. A Vassar girl might help matters somewhat: they're batting a fat 1.49, or tops among eastern college women...
That's really the point of the plot; the lure of baseball is bound to captivate anyone who ever goes out to the park. As one of the characters puts it, "baseball is like spring fever that lasts all summer." "It Happens Every Spring" is a silly but enjoyable parody on the summertime craze that we call the great American sport...
Like the rest of the highway chain, the Massachusetts turnpike would be only a supplement to and not a replacement for the old road network. Using the speedway would be optional; no one traveling from one Massachusetts point to another would be obliged to pay the toll...