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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve grinding weeks of practice, and eight full-scale games had enough effect on the 40-odd footballers yesterday afternoon for Coach Dick Harlow to remark, as he trudged in off the flood-lit field beside the Stadium, that his boys "looked more like a football team this afternoon than they had all season...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Hustling Grid Practice Hits Pass Defense | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago Daily News's Critic C. J. Bulliet led the sneering section with the remark that "these ' 'isms,' grown stale and sterile in the lands of their origins, are further enfeebled crossing the Atlantic." Whatever the critics might say, Director Daniel Catton Rich was convinced that he was showing not the dead hand of the past but the shining face of the future. Only ten years ago, documentary "American School" painting of barnyards, brick cityscapes and beautiful vacation views had been the style. Now, Institute scouts, back from a 24,000-mile trip around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Call It an Eye | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Russian delegate, angered by some remark of Britain's Hector McNeil, screamed: "You have hallucinations! You have nightmares!" Then he offered McNeil some medical advice: "Why don't you take some adrenalin or other medicine to calm your nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Prescription | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...remark made about the possibility of a third party following the prepared speech got Wallace his greatest single response of the evening. He mentioned briefly that a third party was not out of the question in 1948, but added that the difficulty of whipping together such an organization "should not be underestimated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Hits Policy Shift | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...section of the by-laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope no one else shows them those by-laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.U.S. Affiliation and Racial Issue Tested Student Association's Unity | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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