Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's the rest of the team, too--Torbie and Tom and Joe and Bill and a score of others who are vital cogs and who will continue to shine on next year's eleven. Behind the spotlight glare, there're the coaches, the managers, the scrubs, the trainers...
Without fanfare, well aware that it could not steal the spotlight from U. S. football even if its players wore hoop skirts and plumed hats, last week major-league hockey quietly sidled into the North American sport scene at Chicago and Toronto. At Chicago the World-Champion Chicago Blackhawks auspiciously began their five-month defense of the Stanley Cup by trouncing the New York Americans, 6-to-1. At Toronto the powerful Boston Bruins, generally regarded the best team last year despite Chicago's winning the title, nosed out the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...pleasant childhood and youth on Morningside Heights, the teachers who stimulated him, a few of his more picturesque students (some now stuffed shirts, some leading Communists); he writes of his travels, praises the English, meditates on music, relates an encounter with a big-shot Nazi in Greece. But the spotlight is on those amateur philosophers whom he numbers among the "Society of Itinerant Humanists." One was a French doctor who came to treat Edman's indigestion, launched instead into a discourse on Platonic philosophy. Another is his maid Maria, one of the best philosophers who ever kept a bachelor...
...informal place where the Winter Carnival is held; Princeton is a formal place where they don't have much fun; and Chicago is a fairly new place which the Rockefellers have a hand in, too. This much the Vagabond knows about the colleges whose teams have held the Saturday spotlight here this fall. But little Virginia is just a nice, Southern place which is much closer to his heart, and he would write of her as he knows...
While House football has been occupying the intramural spotlight, the University's fail intramural program has extended beyond the Houses to the Yard and the Law and Business schools, drawing nearly 1500 participants...