Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year old guard has played on the defensive platoon for two seasons, and was first-string guard with the '53 Eli squad. Against Harvard on Saturday, Mitinger played the entire defensive game. The Yale Daily News referred to him as the "unsung here of the Blue line" and "the defensive backbone of the team...
...linemen are checked as meticulously as the backs. Under Caldwell's system, the unsung offensive lineman has to be almost as alert as the quarterback in diagnosing the defense. In fact, the offensive lineman is often a signal caller for his own particular area, calling for specialized blocks in cadence with the quarterback. This innovation of "line quarterbacking," according to Caldwell, insures efficient blocking for an opening, and counteracts any sudden defensive shift. And since the single-wing attack depends on the precision and effectiveness of two-on-one blocking, Princeton players are taught a bewildering variety, from...
From maids to file clerks, from the dining hall checkers to Dean's office secretaries, women play an integral but unheralded part in University affairs. Harvard's unsung heroines fill the countless jobs without which the University could not function but "most students almost never become aware of them ... in the work they do and in their existence as people," says John U. Munro '34, Assistant to the Provost. "I think that the most important and least appreciated element of the University are the women who go on planning and putting these things together day by day. They are some...
...There is great goodness in the world," Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen told an Associated Press interviewer, "but it is unsung and unheralded. To get into the papers these days, all you have to do is break one of the Ten Commandments...
Commented the Times: "We agree with Msgr. Sheen's statement that 'there is great goodness in the world,' but the record seems to refute his assertion that it is 'unsung and unheralded...