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Word: school (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Bend, where Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen celebrated their 25th anniversary reunion, there was speculation about whether the 1949 Notre Dame's team was the best in the school's 62-year football history. "Let's say it's one of the greatest," said Horseman Elmer Layden, onetime fullback. But the 1949 entry made a good case for itself by crushing Southern California, 32-0, and stretching Notre Dame's unbeaten string to 37 games over four seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Today! | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and ex -Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce agreed politely Saturday, night that modern capitalism is not entirely compatible with the precepts, of Christianity. They spoke before over 1,800 spectators at the Law School Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1800 Hear Luce Debate Niebuhr in Law Forum | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Saturday's Law Forum, held at the Cambridge High and Latin School, was broadcast nationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1800 Hear Luce Debate Niebuhr in Law Forum | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...freshman D squash team defeated Middle sex School, 3 to 2, at the University Squash Courts Saturday. The Crimson took the first two matches, and won a third by default. Their two wins were in straight sets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Squash Team Wins | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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