Word: wading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army squad, culled from the 1,500 recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
...time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...
Jack and Bill Fisher, as expected, came through with a first and second in the hammer, with a winning throw of 154 feet 6 1/2 inches; Freshman Wade Hampton took third. Pete Garland took first in the high jump, with Freshmen George Capeloe, and Bob Schneider in second and third...
...teachers could be spared-a point wrathfully denied by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-but also stomped angrily, 1,000 strong, to the Board of Education meeting. The Board tried to placate them by electing as their new boss (to succeed the late Superintendent Harold G. Campbell) genial John E. Wade, 64, who had come up from the ranks as a city schoolteacher. Superintendent Wade tried to placate them by batting up a new scheme: instead of firing 125 teachers, retire 40 old ones. The saving would be the same, because the oldsters' salaries were higher...
Determined to oppose any dismissals whatever, the teachers denounced Mr. Wade's proposal. But the Board prepared to adopt it. Said its president, Ellsworth Buck: "There is not a single elementary school standee...