Word: snares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Radcliffe's accelerated program puzzled the world when it was first announced, it is gradually becoming clear that the acceleration is an insidious attempt to snare Mr. Right before he goes marching off to the South Seas. College girls have long suffered from the competition of working girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board...
...Army and Navy, matched in a highly competitive recruiting race, are constantly thinking up new schemes to snare manpower away from each other. The most recent Navy plan, which probably came as quite a blow to many an Army officer, is the V-1 training program which permits qualified men to attend at least two years of college before they go into active service, with the added possibility of finishing college if they transfer to V-7 in their Junior year. The Navy is providing for an enlistment under V-1 of up to 80,000 men a year. From...
...Snare the Bears? The Bears have won the National League championship four times. Last week no team looked capable of stopping the Dream Team from making it five. In the Western Division of the league, the Bears' only real opposition is Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers, boasting Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson, the best passing pair in pro football (last week against the Brooklyn Dodgers they completed eight passes for a gain of 113 yards). The Packers have won four games and lost...
There were only two bright spots in the afternoon for the Crimson and they penetrated the gloom like neon signs in Harlem. Loren MacKinney's feat has already been mentioned--practically climbing up on the defending half back shoulders to snare a 31-yard Lee aerial and then on the following play snagging another 25-yard looper from Johnson to bring the Crimson to the Penn 14-yard stripe for their only serious threat...
...from surprised or disappointed at the cindermen's showing. Mikkola commented, "I felt that they were coming alone nicely, and can only say they did very well." In contrast to last year's Senior outfit which only managed to snare a fifth in the Heps, the showing by this Sophomore group was better than expected...