Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson forward wall has undergone drastic changes this week. George Minot may be out of commission with a bad knee, leaving an uncertain gap in the first line, as former first-stringer Wally Sears has been skating with the third line since the Dartmouth game, Tom Moseley has also retired from the scene, owing to academic pressure...
...quash those pessimists who point constantly to the diminutive quality of the Crimson forward wall, it need only be said that the Wolverines accomplished the 49 to 0 Rose Bowl drubbing of Southern California with a line which was often outweighed 20 pounds...
...country's biggest steelmakers decided to jack up some of their prices again. Cried the Wall Street Journal: "It would appear that the steel managers had concluded that the country was still riding the inflation wave and that they had better ride with it while it lasts...
Boston's popular, ex-convict Mayor James Michael Curley, addressing the United Spanish War Veterans, plumped for MacArthur for President, but doubted that his man would make it. Both parties, his honor averred, want "a passive man who would appease Wall Street and the C.I.O.," so they shipped MacArthur overseas "to destroy...
Consumers were also beginning to cut down on food buying. As a result, the Wall Street Journal, surveying eleven cities, found most food sellers holding back, too. Said one Chicago storekeeper: "We don't know how much to buy now or how much to pay for it." No one was worried much yet. But businessmen were keeping an anxious eye on those soft spots...