Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of this excellent record, Dartmouth must be rated a solid two-touchdown favorite in this afternoon's contest. Still, the Crimson is physically and psychologically prepared for an allout effort this afternoon; and there are some "hunch-players" in the vicinity who have got that feeling that an upset may be in the making. 3 Probable Starting Lineups DARTMOUTH HARVARD Hibbs LE Keohane Bowlby LT Shaunessy Boye LG Keating Colehower C Foster Krutsch RG Anderson Horschman RT Briggs Palmer RE Hershon Gundy QB Ravenel Crouthamel LH Boulris Burke RH Lawson Hepburn FB Halaby
...Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least two Republican incumbents are in much worse shape: Albert Quie, whose loss in Minnesota's solid Republican south could be a mortal blow to the G.O.P., and Veteran H. Carl Andersen, a leading Benson critic, who has long won against inferior Democratic candidates but this year faces Minnesota's House Speaker A. I. Johnson, who has complete D.F.L. support...
...Roosevelt), he dabbled in politics, got elected to two terms (1950-53) as a city councilman. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee), he won the respect of lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department for his solid, keenly reasoned opinions, showed a flair for casting opinions in clear and forceful English. Wrote Judge Stewart, upholding the habeas corpus appeal of a prisoner who had been whisked before a judge late at night, convicted of rape on the basis of a forced confession, and sentenced to life without...
...Cambridge, Mass. He was dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark from 1941-48, spent the next three years as professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. Handsome, jovial "Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard of his election in Miami Beach, Bishop Lichtenberger went for a swim and wryly told his wife that he would like to keep right on swimming-east. Was he reluctant...
Deeply religious, Presbyterian Haig knew that God was on his side, but this did not keep him from setting great military store by fortunetellers. Airplanes, tanks and even machine guns struck him as frivolous inventions that no solid warrior need take seriously. Early in 1916 he had shown the kind of war he preferred to fight when at the Somme he lost 60,000 men on the first day of battle. In Flanders Haig bore out the assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every...