Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...providential point the General heard of a young man with a bright idea. The young man, who had already organized a committee to spread the gospel of nonintervention, was personable Robert ("Bobbie") Douglas Stuart Jr., a Princeton graduate and a student at Yale Law School, son of a wealthy Quaker Oats Co. executive. The name of his committee: The Committee to Defend America First. The General joined immediately...
...only were almost all the Harvard plays directed at the line of scrimmage, instead of over it, but they were also aimed almost entirely, through necessity, at the center of that Quaker front office. With a pair of opposing flankmen as effective as Kuczynski and Nelson (195 and 212 pounds, respectively) the Harvard signal caller Franny Lee, soon found it advisable to refrain from trying to go around the ends...
Aided by Mr. Miller's displacement, this line averages 192, but even so the Crimson will have to spot the opposition 11 pounds a man, as at current quotations the Quaker rush line averages an awing...
Harlow expects to announce the players for the Pennsylvania game either next Tuesday or Wednesday, and the squad will leave Cambridge next Thursday night after the usual afternoon practice. On Friday they practice on Franklin Field, and Saturday they meet a powerful Quaker team, weakened this year only by the graduation of the great Francis Xavier Reagan...
...campers gather after breakfast for a ten-minute period of silent "contemplation'' (an idea borrowed from the Quaker camps), then rattle off in three jalopies to their project. Boss Mesavage hands out assignments, shows them how to use tools, sees that no one overstrains himself. Work is strictly limited to four hours a day; Mesavage overruled a demand that they be allowed to work...