Word: sams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Callanan, who is pretty happy over the way his men have adapted themselves to the English style of playing football, has several good backs. Captain Joe Eaton, John Densmore, and former varsity gridder Sam Adams all show speed and a knack in handling the ball in the fluid and constant action which typifies rugger...
Reading from how up, the current number one boat is composed of Sam Allen, Bob Menslage, John Bordman, Dick Grosvenor, Dave Clark, Sutton Potter, Ted Barrett, stroke Smith, and cox Chuck Osborne. Three of these men--Allen, Menslage, and Barret--had never rowed in a shell before coming to Harvard...
...Nevada's Republican George W. Malone -said publicly that he would vote against it. Most of the nation's editorialists gave their sober approval-with the notable exception of the nation's largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep out of foreign entanglements." The Omaha World Herald slyly demolished that classic argument by predicting: "Washington's words about foreign alliances . . . will be as dead as his warning...
When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...
...players on the peek-preview team have a good chance of staying on all spring. They include Bill Rickenbacker, junior champion of New York City; Hugh Nawn, number-one man on the '51 freshman team; and Sam Seagar, who beat Princeton last year on a 12-foot putt after dark...