Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THURBER, James, autobiographer, was born in Columbus, Ohio. . . . He began to write when he was ten years old (Horse Sandusky, the Intrepid Scout). . . . Quick to arouse, he is very hard to quiet, and people often just go away. . . . He never listens when anybody else is talking, preferring to keep his mind a blank until they get through so he can talk. . . . Two overcoats which he left in the New Yorker office last spring were stolen, or else he left them someplace else...
...first time this year, Lamar will have the benefit of scout's reports, since he and Floyd Stahl have seen Tufts three times--at the pre-season scrimmage and at two games when the Crimson wasn't busy--and he has been able to conduct his practice sessions accordingly. Manly has had scouts at all Harvard games
...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...
...Stagg had still not had his fill of football. He took his second lifetime job, coaching at Pacific. As at Chicago, his wife was his chief scout. In ten years, with poor material, he won less than half his games. Pacific sometimes grumbled that the Old Man was aging and should gracefully retire. But Stagg stubbornly continued to teach his boys to play...
Born in Wahpeton, N.D. on July 14, 1914 ("Bastille Day, and my whole life revolves around freedom"), he was an outstanding Boy Scout, a college (Macalester) and university (Minnesota) undergraduate of formidable achievement: debating, editing, football, basketball, hockey, track...