Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About that B.C.-H tilt. In pre-war days the spectacle of such a game would be virtually fantastic because of the fact Boston College always fielded a big-time (Cotton, Sugar and Orange Bowln in 4 years) team whereas Harvard chose to disregard her football prowess of the 20's and de-emphasis football. Ed. Note: Ever hear of Dick Harlow? The Ivy League? Now tomorrow we find the situation reversed as Harvard drawing from her V-12 units fields a fairly potent eleven, whereas the boys from the Heights have only civvics and Discharged vets to choose from...
...arrests under seven aliases, and six jail terms. In 1933, when it was fashionable to convict racketeers for income-tax evasion, Waxey was given ten years. By 1942 Waxey was back, and in tune with the times; he was jailed for a year for running a black market in sugar. When Manhattan's police tapped Worldwide's phones, they were not surprised to hear the enterprising Waxey telling a friend: "I'm now in a swell thing . . . buying Government surplus business...
...Coach Henry Frnka (rhymes with Sanka), who nursed Tulsa into three Bowl games (Sun, 1942; Sugar, '43 and '44), was not surprised to find that his gang of yearlings was big and promising. He hoped to rate a fourth Bowl...
...dementia praecox (psychiatrists never speak of cures) than would occur anyhow. All that is certain is that it cuts the average hospital stay. And no one yet knows just how any kind of shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental hospital...
...traders into dumping their futures contracts. Wheat prices slumped some 4? a bushel, oats 10? and rye 14?. But paradoxically Latin American producers of foodstuffs were cheered by the nearness of German defeat. In Brazil, Colombia and Cuba, sellers rebelled at contracting ahead for delivery of coffee, cocoa and sugar at U.S. ceiling prices. They expect a rush of orders, at good prices, from Europe...