Word: star
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announced that he was in the third week of a four-week fast. He hoped to attract attention to his campaign for $9,000 to finish making the down payment on a $66,000 mansion to be used as an orphanage. The mansion was once owned by former movie star Colleen Moore. Said Mr. Gaines: "I have fasted many times before. I have never fasted for anything that God has not given...
Crescent Flag. One focus of the trouble lies in the northwest. There, in the Ili valley where the flag of China should fly, a green flag with a yellow crescent moon and a five-pointed star has flown for nearly three years. The region contains about a million people (total Sinkiang population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than...
Michigan's cagey Coach Fritz Crisler was weary of denying that his boys were twice as fast and slicker than a riverboat gambler. To newsmen he confessed sarcastically: "Sure, everyone's a star around here." A few days later, with bands blaring and the first hint of autumn in the air, Crisler's boys took poor Michigan State apart...
Chappuis scored three of Michigan's touchdowns against Michigan State. Last year he piled up more yardage from running and passing than Michigan's former star, Tom Harmon. By normal standards, sturdy-framed Chappuis is old (24) for a college player, but this is hardly a normal year. A wartime lieutenant, he had been shot down over the Brenner Pass on his 21st mission, and made his way south to the British lines...
Older Faces. Bob Chappuis is by no means the oldest collegiate player around: Michigan also has 31-year-old Tackle Alvin Wistert, brother of two former All-Americas. And New York University has a halfback who is 33. At Mississippi, 23-year-old End Barney Poole, once an Army star, is playing his sixth year of varsity football, by grace of weird eligibility rules. At Iowa City, infants on the sidelines watch their fathers laboring through practice. Ten men on Iowa's squad are married...