Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson's backfield coach certainly doesn't fall into the superstitious class. Like all of the new football family, he counts the final score as the big thing. "There's no such thing as a moral victory" was his remark before the Columbia game, and it apparently keynoted that week...
...School students, incensed over a recent statement in Yale-controlled Life Magazine, have challenged the Eli football coach to a gastronomical contest. The remark, contained in the Luce publication's pale blue appraisal of the nation's new coaches, said, "Herman Hickman can eat more than any two men alive...
...Widener Library stacks: he read Dante in Italian, got a "working knowledge" of French literature, dipped into Chinese, philosophy, mathematics. In his third year, he took six courses and attended four more (normal quota: five). He liked exams-"the definiteness and excitement"-and got A's. One Oppenheimer remark is a Harvard legend: "It was so hot today the only thing I could do all afternoon was lie on my bed and read Jeans's Dynamical Theory of Gases...
...Brien was also a teacher and trustee at the Samuel Adams School for Social Studies, which recently went out of business after being branded "an apparent adjunet to the Communist Party" by the Justice Department. It is probably such connections as this that led the Daily Worker to remark that an O'Brien victory "would be one of the most important Progressive victories in the nation," an accolade which the candidate hopes to balance off by his outspoken Catholicism...
...Engineer Tindle, asked by newsmen to comment on Dewey's remark, observed mildly: "I think as much of Dewey as I did before and that's not very much...