Word: rading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rade. All the solemnity, the boisterousness, the pride and the sentimentality were wrapped up together in the weekend's grand "P-rade." Two miles of sign-swinging Princeton men, paced by 32 military bands, wound in & out of the campus to University Field. At their head was orange-bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau...
Wounded-California's 1936 All-America center, 1st Lieut. Bob Herwig*; Iowa's 1940 captain and tackle, Major Rade ("Mike") Enich; the New York (Pro) Giants' and ex-Brown University fullback, Lieut. John McLaughry...
...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...
...rade. Near Albany, motorists rolled up their windows, shot into reverse when a congregation of some 300 skunks ambled slowly across the state highway...
...idea was not exclusive with Com rade Litvinoff. Many Britons hotly championed it. Last week a Gallup poll showed that 50% more British people were thinking about an invasion of the continent than any other single problem. In a week when the Russians were having serious troubles, more people than ever felt that Britain should do all it could to help itself by helping Russia...