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Word: samuels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean and fragile," said the scouting report. "He can't play the kind of football we play in this conference." Samuel Adrian Baugh (rhymes with law) was, indeed, lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 lbs.), but the rawboned Texan from Sweetwater was far from fragile. What's more, he wanted to play football so badly that he spent hour after hour throwing a ball through a swinging auto tire to learn passing accuracy. The practice paid off. Baugh was an All-America quarterback in 1935 and 1936 and led his Texas Christian teammates to victory in both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 33 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...Samuel A. Olevson '54 was elected president of the United Nations Council last night. Working with him will be Herbert G. Taylor '55 and Gene E. Jackson '55, vice-president; William J. Cates '54, corresponding secretary; and Mohamed Ali Sheriff '55, treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Council Names Officers | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

...concerned with more than pork chops for his boys. An aggressive speaker with a talent for sticking to the pertinent facts, he became business representative for New York Plumbers Local 463 at 28. At 40, he was the youngest president of the New York State Federation of Labor since Samuel Gompers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Boss of the A.F.L. | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

John Tulenko '54, of Holyoke, Mass., one of the incumbents, was reelected at Winthrop. The other representatives are: Adams--Robert A. G. Monks '54 of Cohasset Mass.; Dudley--Gerard Alch '54 of Dorchester, Mass.; Dunster--Robert L. Goldman '54 of Woodmere, New York; Kirkland--Samuel A. Cousins '54 of Philadelphia, Pa.; Leverett--Richard B. Baumgartner '54 of Kansas City, Mo.; Lowell--Anthony C. Bielenson '54 of Mt. Versea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Elect Seven as Council Representatives | 12/6/1952 | See Source »

Died. Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison, 85, commander of the Atlantic Fleet's submarine force during World War I, onetime (1921-22) military governor of Santo Domingo and later (1925-26) commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet; in Glendale, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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