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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Heyliger said tonight that the Wolverines will be depending heavily on their first line for a scoring punch, since the second trio is "nothing extraordinary." Michigan's starting forwards will include two of the western league's top scorers, Captain Bill MacFarland and wing Tom Rendall, and the squad's best playmaker, Dick Dunnigan...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Sextet Will Battle Michigan In Colorado Opener Tonight | 3/10/1955 | See Source »

Although equipped with a solid defensive unit, the Blue has thus far failed to develop a scoring punch. Scherer, the team's workhorse, has had as many as 57 saves in a single game...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Crimson Six Highly Favored In Traditional Game Tonight | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...first A-bomb which shattered Hiroshima struck out at its victims over about 7 square miles. Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war. On November 1, 1952, a much more powerful bomb spread its blast-heat punch over 300 square miles. This was Quantum Jump No. 2. The world did not have long to wait for No. 3. It came on March 1, 1954, with the fallout of radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of the Pacific. Quantum Jump No. 3-the lethal radioactive fallout-is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Minnesota's victories were not won in a stadium but on a radio show called College Quiz Bowl (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC), where four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twelve Straight | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Lacking the "one dependable man" to steady the team, Munro has had to switch his starting lineup for nearly every game. Consequently almost the entire squad has gotten game experience, but he has yet to find a satisfactory blend of scoring punch and aggressiveness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 2/3/1955 | See Source »

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