Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Danzig's confrere, Lincoln A. Werden, hailed "the emergence of Harvard as a topflight team. Entering the contest an unknown factor to most observers, the Crimson ran on its repertoire of plays with a thoroughness and efficiency sufficient to rock the Lions in the first half and then carried out its assignments of newly installed Michigan style of attack so well that it left a determined Columbia eleven for short of a cherished victory...
Franklin P. Adams, veteran columnist and mnemonic marvel of radio's Information, Please, was dabbling again in politics.* He was put up as Democratic candidate for justice of the peace in Weston, Conn., a rock-ribbed Republican community...
After analyzing election returns of the last 100 years, Bean concludes that 1946 was the statistical rock-bottom vote for the Democratic Party, below which the Democrats will not sink. In fact he adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...
Record. In Little Rock, Ark., Acting Governor Nathan Gordon justified his reduction of Amos Wilson's sentence for second-degree murder from nine to two years: "During the time he has been in the penitentiary he has been a law-abiding citizen...
White-haired Horace M. Ainscough, 62, first went down the pits in 1895 in Lancashire, England, and finally retired from the Union Pacific Coal Co.'s mines in Rock Springs, Wyo. last February. His pension, retroactive to the day he retired: $100-a-month. Said Ainscough: "God bless the day John L. Lewis was born...