Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team, which has scrimmaged the Boston Celtics, Connecticut, and Springfield with considerable success during the past few weeks, starts shooting for keeps tonight in the season's opener against Brown at Providence. Tapoff time is listed...
...Springfield 1, Harvard...
...opening game against Springfield, national champs for the last we years, the soccer team lost 1 to 0, but in its next game tied Cornell, the team most likely to take the Ivy League, 3 all. Then came four straight shutout wins over Amherst by three goals, Army by three goals, Tufts by five goals, and Dartmouth by four goals...
News of Bob Knetzer's magic formula spread quickly beyond Southern Illinois' coal and farm country. St. Louis and Springfield gangsters, who would rather go without a rod than a Cadillac, scurried with cash in hand to Bob's classy showroom, across the street from Edwardsville's courthouse. Orders came from as far away as California and South America. Cash poured in, cars rolled out and Bob, at 37, was rich...
...Thirteen magicians seated themselves in a dimly lighted hotel room in Springfield, Mass., held hands, made one last attempt to communicate with the spirit of the late Harry Houdini. When the lights were turned on they knew they had failed again. Two sets of locked handcuffs (which Houdini had promised to unlock if he could get back from the "world beyond") were undisturbed...