Word: switches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three members of the 1948 varsity football team may have to switch from the single wing system they are familiar with to the 'T' when they join teammates for two North-South games to be played Christmas...
...President Harry Truman safely back & forth to the office wing of the White House, which he will continue to use, Washington police were installing special signal lights at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Jackson Place. When the President crosses Pennsylvania Avenue, a master switch will stop traffic in all directions...
...Many Switches. At New Haven, where his Yale team bowed to Princeton last week, roly-poly Coach Herman Hickman complained: "The way the boys switch in & out, I spend half my time seeing if there are nine, twelve or 14 men in the game ... I need an assistant...
...hundred-sixty-six votes are needed for election. If no candidate gets this, the election will go to the newly elected House of Representatives, unless the Thurmond electors should switch their allegiance. The House would then choose among Truman, Dewey, and Thurmond, with the states voting as a unit and casting one vote apiece...
...stood to one side of the podium, his head raised, his arms outstretched to the cheers, his face smiling. It is quite true that he smiles very badly. The trouble is he can't smile slowly--one instant his face is serious and then very suddenly, as if a switch has been thrown, he is grinning rigidly and coldly...