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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saw John Yovicsin coach at Harrisburg Catholic High for free just to get chances at other jobs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KUDOS FOR YOVICSIN | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

...saw John Yovicsin coach at Middletown for peanuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KUDOS FOR YOVICSIN | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

When the first group of freshmen was elected to the paper in February, 1901, Roosevelt was not among them. It was not until the end of April that he got the story which insured his election. He saw in the Boston papers that his cousin, vice-president Theodore Roosevelt '80, was in Cambridge visiting Professor Lowell, so he and another cousin called T.R. up and asked to see him. The vice-president said he was going to lecture in Lowell's Gov 1 course in Sanders the next morning. He would be glad to see them afterward. F.D.R. raced...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

Some of his classmates found this energy offensive. Though his exuberance made Roosevelt a formidable opponent in argument, many friends thought it embarrassing. When Bradley Gilman saw Roosevelt arguing with two freshmen in the corridor of Memorial Hall, he remarked in amazement: "I was struck by the earnestness with which he was setting forth some point to the other two. He emphasized his points by vigorous movements of the head, and by striking his right first into his left palm...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

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