Word: spuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tufts, one of New England's pre-war basketball powers, is just regaining its stride, interrupted because it had no armed service officer training program. Two returnees, forward Spud Shapiro, holder of Tuft's scoring record, and guard Al Perry, are currently sparking the Jumbo five, which so far has defeated Devens but lot to Holy Cross in two starts. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD TUFTS Brady RF Shapiro Davis LF Travis Hauptfuhrer C Brault Gannon RG Cooney Henry LG Perry
...votes against 23,017 for his Tory opponent Frank Taylor. The Conservative appeal in suburban Gravesend, a Tory stronghold until the Labor victory in 1945, had been directed mainly at the housewives. Taylor became known as "Tater Taylor" because he lugged his 3-lb. weekly spud ration around with him on the hustings. The housewives were disgusted enough with shortages,* but not enough of them saw any reason to suppose that Tory M.P.s would furnish more potatoes than Laborites...
...audience. "Doctor, does it do any good in rheumatism to carry a potato in the pocket?" asked a listener last week. "A fatheaded question," replied the amiable doctor. "Now I ask you-do you really think that changes in the joints, deep-seated changes, can be effected by a spud in your jacket pocket...
Kathleen was dropped like a hot spud. In the midst of the gloom the Irish Times at last found a good word to say for the harp. To Irishmen good, black Guinness stout is "the wine of the country." Like Eire, Guinness uses the harp for its emblem. "They have 25 strings to their harps," wrote the Times columnist helpfully. "If you can count them, you can safely order another bottle...
BOSTON--Bullet Bobby Feller and a pair of efficient henchmen, Hal Newhouser and Spud Chandler, were the big three moundsmen who made the Amer- ican Leaguers 3 to 1 favorites for tomorrow's major league All-Star battle at Fenway Park...