Word: rote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sportswriter Bill Fay yesterday published Collier's 61st A;-American football team. In the backfield are: Vite Parilli, Kentucky, Vis Janowicz, Ohio State, Kyle Rote, S.M.U. and Leon Heath, Oklahoma. The line consists of: Bill McColl, Stanford, Dan Foldberg, Army, Holland Donan, Princeto, Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma, Ted Daffer, Tenuessee, Bud McFadin, Texas, and 'Bob McCullough, Obio State...
...Williams, Notre Dame's star quarterback, was voted best bet for outstanding back of the season yesterday in an Associated Press poll. Williams received 44 of 109 votes to barely win over Southern Methodist's 190-pound speedster, Kyle Rote...
...Allen & Shannon whirl through their chore by rote, they also pause long enough to give out a good many brass rings. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft gets a grudging tribute but a high one: "He never ducks an issue." Illinois' Paul Douglas is described as "outstandingly the ablest man in the Senate ... for solid intellectual force...
...always a lace-and-ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...