Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...universities to be more than museums for the preservation and study of ancient works has increased now that young authors, many of them under the G.I. Bill, are making the campuses a center for their activities. Stanford, which has taken its responsibility seriously, presents an example as the ideal spot for the student writers. It attracts the best teachers by offering them security of tenure, the best promising novelists by giving them scholarships, and it keeps a well balanced curriculum by having an organized division of creative writing...
Only bright spot of the afternoon was the return of Len Lunder, batting champion of last year and a right fielder, who was operated on for an infected leg during the Spring vacation. Wearing a special pad, fashioned by James Farrell, Lunder was able to run, but will not be able to play until the end of the week...
...drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, sends steaks to half the continent, and has already placed a plaque on the spot (in the Muehlebach Hotel) where Harry Truman signed the first Greek-Turkish aid bill...
...York's Harvard Club has been put on the spot. The Club's management will receive this morning a Union offer to submit to arbitration the wage-and-hour labor dispute that has caused the present strike against the Club. If the management agrees to arbitrate, it will probably lose the case; if it refuses, it will have placed itself on morally untenable grounds...
Probable starting golfers will be Bill Rickenbacker in the number one spot, followed by Ozzie Keiver, Savidge, Line Kinnicutt, and Jack Denton. Rickenbacker is the best player on the links now, and is expected to be getting in the low 70's before the season...