Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That, at least, is the observation of Robert A. Dennison '50 after a season spent piloting jalopies around a West Peabody track. However, it isn't what induced him to take up jalopies as a pastime. He started going to the races during the summer but found it was getting too expensive to pay his way into the track several nights a week; so Dennison picked up a cheap 1940 two-door Ford sedan, three mechanics, a membership in the National Jalopy Racing Association, and became an insured driver instead of a daring spectator...
Though Adams spent most of its time grinding out short gains off the tackles, it scored one of its touchdowns through the air and the other on a pass interception. After two long drives had collapsed in scoring territory, Gold Coaster Roger Davis tossed a 20-yard scoring pass to Hank Foster...
...Valpey, after 24 hours spent dissecting his scouting reports, was able to offer some interesting comments on Princeton's offenses. The Tigers operate from a straight single wing--the only Harvard opponent to do so--and have an attack keyed primarily to a flashy sophomore tailback, Dick Kazmaier...
...Locomotive God. Loewy first dreamed of building cars and locomotives in Paris, where he was born and spent the first 26 years of his life. His father, Maximilian, was a Viennese journalist; his mother, Marie Labalme, a sturdy Frenchwoman who prodded her children by continually telling them: "Better to be envied than pitied." Young Raymond, the third of three sons, filled his school notebooks with so many sketches of locomotives, automobiles and airplanes that his parents sent him to engineering school...
...installed the first non-rusting aluminum shelves ever to be used in a refrigerator. The Coldspot became a single smooth, gleaming unit of functional simplicity-and with it Sears' sales shot up five-fold by 1936. Loewy had been paid only $2,500 for the job (and had spent nearly three times that in expenses), but Sears was glad to pay him $25,000 for his next job. His reputation was made...