Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity football team began the drive towards its toughest game of the season yesterday, but there was no indication that Art Valpey and his well-tapped men felt pessimistic about their impending visitors from Army...
...injury list, a disquieting factor in Harvard's football picture all season, is still indefinite. Howie Houston and John Coan returned Saturday for oneway service and came through without further damage; but Chief Bender, Stretch Mazzone, Hal Moflie, and Jim Kenary are still doubtful quantities...
Poly Guyda's freshman team will also have holiday action tomorrow, traveling to Milton. Yardling inside right Pete Baker played with Milton last season when the '52 freshmen beat the prep schoolers...
...when Wallace finally got his hybrid, it started laying eggs earlier in the season than other breeds, laid larger eggs and more of them. In test runs sponsored by Iowa State College, four flocks of his hybrids netted an egg profit of $3.88 a hen a year, while other leading breeds brought in only 70? to $1.44 a bird. Average production of the hybrids was 247 eggs per chicken while none of the others broke through the 200 mark...
Pinky (20th Century-Fox) is the most ambitious and costly of this season's crop of Negro-problem films-including Home of the Brave and Lost Boundaries. Pinky was finished after its B-budgeted rivals had proved at the box office that the public is interested in movies that give serious treatment to a serious theme, e.g., the sorry plight of the U.S. Negro. Partly because it puts entertainment above soap-boxing, Darryl Zanuck's sleek movie is head & shoulders above its predecessors both as entertainment and propaganda...