Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of Facts v. Ideas, Educator Hutchins had taken the side of ideas. This did not mean that he rejected facts. This week he marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago, the university had reached a height in science (i.e., the pursuit of facts) such as it had never achieved before. But Hutchins thoroughly intended that students at Chicago would be equipped to make a sound search for the truth about the facts...
...Jockey Eddie ("Heady Eddie") Arcaro, riding Brookmeade Stable's Blue Hills, was two lengths in front as the horses flashed past the grandstand for the second time in last week's $15,000 added Pimlico Cup. As he had at the end of many a 1½ mile event, Eddie pulled up. Eddie's error: the Pimlico Cup, longest of U.S. stake races, is 2½ miles. The awful truth dawned when the other horses sped by and one jockey cried derisively: "We have to go around again, buddy...
...most likely to succeed. With steady and sometimes brutal authority, the two giants of the midlands stood the test. As the season progressed, two less obvious candidates-Army in the East and California in the Far West-rose to join them as the big four of college football. Last week, with season's end in sight, the big four marshaled their manpower against a common enemy: overconfidence...
Errors Reports. This week, with the Big Seven title safely tucked away for an other year, Wilkinson & Co. have an old score to settle. They meet tough Santa Clara, the team that spoiled their other wise perfect season last year. Notre Dame's Leahy, after studying the films, will tell his players exactly how many errors they committed against North Carolina (by Leahy's count they committed 88 in beating Michigan State the week before), and pound them into readiness for Iowa...
...Coaches Blaik, Leahy, Waldorf and Wilkinson. Complained some old-fashioned fans: the new game turned out more specialists, but was it really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace. As Pennsylvania's switch to the platoon system last week indicated, however, the new game looked tempting to the schools that could play it. It seemed to be around to stay...