Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Boat Club is sponsoring the affair in hopes of encouraging graduating Harvard and MIT rowers to join the club crew. No one seems to be very worried about winning. Crow coach Tom Holles hasn't even named a crew for the race, though he is pretty certain that Art Rouner will stroke...
...also had high praise for the work of the Big Green's ends, Dave Beeman and Tom Rowe. (Beeman, at 6 ft., 5 in., is the biggest man on the squad). "They catch a lot of passes--and Clayton is a very fine passer...
...burly mortal visited the Olympian chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court one morning last week to see his former Cabinet colleague, Tom Clark, mount the bench for the first time. Confronted by a court attache as he searched for a seat, the visitor announced himself: "I'm Secretary Johnson." "What are you secretary of?" asked the attendant, unimpressed...
...Cork the sympathetic Irish did what they could. Bustling, white-haired Mrs. Tom Barry cajoled bakers into giving free bread, and greengrocers into supplying fruits and vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...third period Michigan finally discovered a seeming Army weakness-at the guards-and began to roll, scoring one touchdown and threatening another. Then a thin, 155-lb. safety-man, Cadet Tom Brown, played taps for Michigan by intercepting a pass in the end zone in the last six minutes of play. Final score: Army 21, Michigan 7. When Army's team came home to the grey-walled Point, the Cadet corps put on a welcome so thunderous that it almost drowned out an eleven-gun howitzer salute...