Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength and a fullback named Eddie Price, Tulane was ranked No. 4 in the nation...
...drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still has enough strength to make it better than the run of movies...
After a disappointing start against Pennsylvania, the Indians came back to wallop Holy Cross and Colgate, primarily on the strength of Clayton's passing and some well executed trap plays and off tackle slants. Dartmouth's great weapon against Harvard last year, however, was its outside game...
Vinson also told the committee he "understood" that the Navy and Marine strength in .aircraft squadrons was to be cut almost in half in the 1951 budget, that "secret orders" had already been issued and that the Air Force was even advocating "that no large carriers or air groups should be kept in the Navy." Said Vinson: "So, I find it not too difficult to comprehend the concern of the air arm of the Navy and the Navy in general...
...best guess is that we are 25,000 below strength," he said. "When we stopped drafting (at the beginning of this year), we were 25,000 over strength...