Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan football teams, is the last dozen years or more, have been known as the leading exponents of the "Punt, Pass and Pray" school of football and this distinction has not been without justification. Michigan teams, at least the winning ones, have been touchdown and field goal teams but never first down teams. The losing teams, of which there were few, failed to make first downs with greater regularity than the winning teams. At times Michigan's inability to make first downs closely approaches genius...
...organizations one-tenth of what he spends each year for liquor, Prohibition would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
...Empire braced itself for the gorgeous moment next week when King George V and Queen Mary would sally from the robing room of the House of Lords (see cover), when His Majesty would signalize the momentous rebirth of the Mother of Parliaments by the gracious words, "My Lords, pray be seated...
With this hint for moderation the Puritans of the 1930 psuedo-school would do well to follow the wisdom of the Puritans of 1630 and pray that the nation may be brought to right and not to righteousness through the elections...
...more impecunious students, who come to Cambridge from distant parts and are forced to live in unattractive rooms and dine in gloomy boarding houses or the ordinary hash slinging cafeteria, such houses would be a godsend. Building sites and money are the difficulties to be overcome. One can only pray for the appearance of some benefactor like Harkness, Baker, and Vanderbilt to provide buildings for the Law School worthy of its importance in the University...