Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right wing Needle Bliss and center Doug Manchester, both of the first line, shared the high scoring credits with three apiece. Captain Bob Marsolais, second line center, gave a beautiful exhibition of his skating prowess, scoring twice on long, fast shots...
...eleven-member committee of presidents included the heads of institutions more noted for their athletic prowess than for perhaps anything else--colleges such as Notre Dame, Michigan State, and Southern Methodist--and this seems to bode well for a general awakening to the dangers of professionalism in college sports. The program the committee adopted was a generally good one. Some of the six points, such as abolition of out-of-season practice and limitation on the kind of financial aid that can be given to students who are also varsity athletes, may limit legitimate and desirable practices, but the principles...
...Cowles Jr., now 49. Unlike his father, who held a firm finger on the whole operation, diffident "Billy" Cowles leaves the Review news department to 38-year-old Managing Editor James Bracken. Though the paper still covers its region like a tent, it no longer has its former editorial prowess. Bracken has been trying to restore it by scraping some of the moss off the Review's Republicanism to bring it more in line with the increasing industrialization of the area. His progress has not been empire-shaking. Many a Spokane citizen still pines for a chance to read...
...conversation earlier, Jordan said that the athlete should not be penalized by some "unfounded stigma" attached to giving a scholarship to a scholar-athlete. According to Sandler, Jordan claimed this does not denote subsidization "which is generally interpreted as meaning giving scholarships and other financial aids purely on athletic prowess...
Regarding the relative poetic prowess of Oxford and Cambridge [TIME, Sept. 24]: in my youth I was told that, with a logic understood only in Britain, the Oxford Book of English Verse had been so named because it was compiled, almost in its entirety, from the works of Cambridge poets. Protests that at least one Oxford poet-of the first magnitude was represented therein were greeted with the reminder that his university career had ended prematurely when he was "sent down...