Word: spearfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleep & Steak. If Notre Dame were starting the season against Spearfish Normal, Leahy would probably predict victory for Spearfish. But for once, this coachly gloom seemed to have some slight justification. Notre Dame's 1947 All-America Quarterback Johnny Lujack had graduated; the departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like...
...years ago an automobile finance man named Guy Bett from Spearfish, S. D. saw Meier's players in Sioux Falls, S. D. He got to know Meier, persuaded him to settle in Spearfish. It was a small, attractive place, high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...
...while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause for a solemn moment after the final curtain. Then it was loud and long, while many people swarmed backstage to stare at Meier. This solid urban success of the Black Hills Players made it appear that in Spearfish, S. D., the U. S. may have acquired its own Oberammergau...
...into Oslo Fjord. For an added fillip they said their mines were of a new type against which there was no known defense. Used in these operations undoubtedly were plenty of France's big submarines which can lay 150 mines per trip. Somewhere along the line the British Spearfish took a crack at the Admiral Scheer, one of Germany's two remaining pocket-battleships, and believed her speared by two torpedoes...