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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perfection was still the goal for the Crimson's single wing offense as everybody in sight took part in an hour-long exercise. an encouraging sign in this in this department was some sudden progress in the passing game. Chuck Roche, Jim Noonan, and Jim Kenary were all throwing, and, incidentally, completing nearly eighty percent of their heaves...
...narrow squeak. The young Possessor of the Four-&-Twenty Golden Umbrellas* ran his Fiat smack into a truck. Out of the hospital a few days later with his cuts and bruises well on the mend, he would not know for some time whether he had permanently lost the sight of his right...
...attic business that Nellie Quinlan Donnelly, a young housewife, started in 1916. At the Parsons (Kans.) convent where she went to school, the second youngest of 13 Quinlans, she told her roommates: "When I'm a housewife I'm certainly not going to look such a sight as a lot of women...
...Biographer Freeman's maternal ancestors were. Young Douglas was a 17-year-old honor student at Richmond College when his father, who had been a private in Lee's army (and later a general in the Confederate veterans organization), took him to a Confederate reunion. The sight of the Confederacy's brave armless and legless old men stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever, and I'm go'n' to do it." Being Virginia born, Douglas Freeman had heard endless...
...vision during a solitary walk in the foothills of the Alps: "I felt the walls grow thin between the visible and the invisible, and there came a sudden flash of eternity, breaking in on me. I kneeled down then and there in that forest glade, in sight of the mountains, and dedicated myself in the hush and silence, but in the presence of an invading life, to the work of interpreting the deeper nature of the soul, and direct mystical relation with God, which had already become my major interest...