Word: reds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frozen Feet. In the summer, the sun beat down on the school's tin roof, the pine boards sweated resin, and the smaller pupils dropped off to sleep. In winter "after the white frosts had fallen and blanketed the frozen land . . . many times I saw the red spots . . . from the bleeding little bare feet of those who came to school regardless of shoes." Jesse had to cure pretty 14-year-old Vaida Conway of spitting tobacco juice on the schoolhouse walls, and furtive Alvin Purdy of scribbling obscenities in the privy...
...Diamond, National Medical Director of the American Red Cross Blood Program, is an authority on blood groups, the physiology of the new born and hematology in infants. He is also Chief of the Hematology Division of the Children's Hospital and Visiting Physician of the Infant's Hospital...
...Boston Red Sox worked into a tie with the Yankees for the American League leadership yesterday by beating New York 4 to 1. Mel Parnell pitched his twenty-fifth victory, beating Allie Reynolds, and Ted Williams hit his forty-third home run of the season...
...weeks before the scheduled game, martial law is declared on both campuses. Raiding parties can be expected any night. A concrete "C" in the Berkeley Hills usually gets a coat of cardinal red paint (Stanford's color), and numerous blue C's appear on the Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property...
...rooting section itself is not the haphazard affair of an Ivy League school. There are two oblong sections, one for roughs, the other for coeds. All the roughs wear white shirts and rooters' caps. These caps are red on one side and white on the other. Certain designated people wear the red side of their hats up; everyone else wears white. The result of this folderol is a red S on a white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything...