Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the top football teams seemed unbeatable. Perhaps it was the unlimited-substitutions rule that favored the big teams. Lesser teams might talk about how they held back the giant for a quarter or two, as many of them did, but by the final gun the team with superior reserves of talented specialists (either offensive or defensive) won. In the Midwest, there seemed no end to the invincibility of Notre Dame and Michigan, both unbeaten since 1946. Only slightly less impressive were North Carolina and Army. The pity was that none of these four would play each other, so that...
...best. In rainy Seattle, the Rose Bowl-bound Golden Bears made it five straight this season by rubbing Washington's nose in the mud, 21 to 0. California's highly advertised Fullback Jack Jensen couldn't seem to get untracked, but Halfback Jack Swaner, a superior mudder, had a big day, scoring all three touchdowns...
While Holy Cross was coasting into its third game, Harvard had been shoved precipitously off the walls of Ithaca. But it was the end of smooth sailing for the Crusaders, too. A vastly superior Dartmouth eleven proceeded to show up all the suspected Holy Cross weaknesses and more. With the Purple line continually outcharged by the Big Green, the T-formation looked mighty impotent...
...political show in the city's history; more than 60,000 stood for two hours along the main streets, cheering wildly as Truman passed. In Springfield, Ill., the oldtime campaign flares were burning and streets were packed twelve deep. In Duluth, half the city (pop. 110,000) lined Superior Street for more than two miles, clambered on roofs, peered from office windows, crowded so close that the President's car brushed their clothes...
...supporting cast that is uniformly excellent, particularly Macduff; a set that gives no feeling of being a habitation at all but does add immeasurably to the rawness of the theme (the hero, as Welles interprets him, is too uncivilized to live in a human dwelling); and finally, an exciting, superior movie with moments of startling brilliance...