Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the ball well over the midfield stripe in Bunny territory, Chuck Griffith tossed a pass to Willy Cleveland, who made a sensational diving catch and landed on the two yard marker. Griffith again took the ball and plunged through left tackle for the score that won the game. It was Blanchard on the try for the extra point, but his kick was blocked...
...signs in Harlem. Loren MacKinney's feat has already been mentioned--practically climbing up on the defending half back shoulders to snare a 31-yard Lee aerial and then on the following play snagging another 25-yard looper from Johnson to bring the Crimson to the Penn 14-yard stripe for their only serious threat...
Dusk was falling, and the last of the B. A. A. marathon spectators had left the Exeter Street finish line when Ed Souder, Jr. and Doug Shepardson, Adams House Seniors, dashed over the 26 mile, 385 yard stripe in a tie for 69th place and collapsed on the rubbing tables. Wearing only dripping shorts and wan smiles, the two men were a sorry sight...
American museums--nine out of ten them--being cut on this stripe, it is easy to see why a tough, wiry Missouri artist like Thomas Hart Benton doesn't like them. He said recently that he would rather have his paintings hung in privies or night clubs than in an art gallery. Nobody pays attention to art in museums, he complained, except Harvard-trained aesthetes with "delicate wrists and swinging gaits." Billy Rose took him at his word, and now a juicy Benton nude hangs in New York's Diamond Horseslioe, where fat and plodding mid-Western businessmen can admire...
...best of these mustangs (Navy for non-Annapolis officers) will have a crack at regular commissions in the Navy by meeting the Navy's qualifications after one year of sea service. In the long run, as Admiral Nimitz predicted, some of them may even wear the broad stripe of the Admiral's rank. For next fall's program another 5,000-odd will be enrolled, sent to training. But from its experience with the first group the Navy has decided to make the going tougher. From now on, candidates will have to be college graduates, have...