Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge there weren't many people around for Cotton Mather's only blowout. Less than one-quarter of the local undergraduate population was on deck for turkey day, and the Annex had a meager...
...point last Saturday. It took her and a lot of other people a long time to find out that the Harvard team doesn't have a bellyful of jelly. Those weren't emergency rations that we pulled on Brown. It was now about time for some of that long hard work beginning last Spring to start paying off. There were a lot of things that were good, like Paul Shafer's running, and Jim Noonan's passing, and Chuck Rocho's kicking, and Hal Mofilo's faking, but there was something that meant even more. That was when the whole...
...Varsity, alternating at guard and tackle during the season, which proved to be Bob Kipe's last with the Maize and Blue. That winter he won the Big Nine Conference heavyweight wrestling championship for the first time and was elected captain for the following year. As if that weren't enough to keep him busy, he also took on the task of running a day camp for boys, a job he continued after graduation by running a camp in Wyoming during the summer for four years...
...know their criteria. But one outstanding difference between Clement B. Wood's prizewinner and nearly every story the Advocate or Signature printed during the year was that in Wood's piece you could always tell who was talking, you could understand what they were saying, and when people weren't talking, you knew what was happening and where, while in the other stories you could hardly ever be sure of any of these things. In other words, Wood's story was easy to follow while the others were...
...scattered industry), the good news spread. Publishers who had been hoarding their best tunes for months, trying to keep them out of the "corn belt" (i.e., giving them to harmonica outfits to record), were riffling through their desk drawers. Bandleaders were set for hurried rehearsals; Crosby, Como and Sinatra weren't straying too far from their telephones. Last week, after ten months, it looked as if the record ban was about...