Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's big concrete stadiums, the news at the mid-season mark was that the top football teams seemed unbeatable. Perhaps it was the unlimited-substitutions rule that favored the big teams. Lesser teams might talk about how they held back the giant for a quarter or two, as many of them did, but by the final gun the team with superior reserves of talented specialists (either offensive or defensive) won. In the Midwest, there seemed no end to the invincibility of Notre Dame and Michigan, both unbeaten since 1946. Only slightly less impressive were North Carolina and Army...
Close, hard fought, and erratic football is the rule in the Inter-House League these days...
Yesterday, on Soldiers Field, this rule was pushed to its extremes when Winthrop plucked a 6 to 2 win from Adam and Dunster won over Dudley Hall...
...best single rule for TV fashions is neutrality. The whole thing hits hardest at women who dote on some shades of red -and at TV engineers who would like to show the girls in orange-red bathing suits. In television's strange alchemy, this shade simply disappears...
Said Engineer Poole: the theory of the atom-driven airplane is "99% perfected." The long-haired scientists have done their work, he explained, and now it is up to the "slide-rule men" to translate theory into a tangible airplane...