Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in many years. Dugger and Hall of Tufts must contend with Frank Fuller of Virginia, the Ivy League trio of Captain Jay Shields and Ted Day of Yale and Don Donahue of Harvard, George Gilson of Holy Cross, and Jim Smith of Temple in a splendid high hurdles field. The Tufts' ace will have Captain Walter Zittel of Cornell, Don Donahue, Harold Stickel of Pitt, and Warren Wittens of Pennsylvania for strong opposition in the low hurdles...
...Said he, for U. S. consumption, in a cable to William H. Davey, Cleveland steel man and a director of the largest subsidiary of Richard Thomas: "So far as I am concerned everything is 1,000,000% above board. The new plant is a great success. . . . Cash position is splendid. . . . Objecting to my criticism . . . they [the board] have tried to persuade me to resign. I flatly refused in order to force them to accept the responsibility for my dismissal. . . . Like our Armies, I am fighting . . . for justice...
...history and language. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Irish Charitable Society when President, O'Connor rose and said, "He is a Harvard man who has given this fund to Harvard because he has the glory of the Irish race in his blood. . . . He is a splendid Irishman...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808, which this winter gave us the splendid Bach-Handel concert, concludes its season with a concert in Paine Hall Friday evening. On the program are included Mozart's Haffner Symphony, the seldom performed "Stabat Mater" of Pergolesi, and a Purcell suite arranged by Mr. Holmes from unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum...
...first, Jamaica Inn, did not quite come off, due to friction between the bulgy Hitchcock and the bulky Charles Laughton egos. This time Hitchcock does it all his way, does a splendid job and has a splendid cast to do it with...