Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here it was sweltering, with days so hot they wondered how they could hear it. Each day that passed, a few of them found some excuse for going back to the cool spots they had just left. Or others, like Johnny West and Carl Bottenfield, were eliminated for reasons beyond their control. Still others with brittle legs found themselves in hospitals. But most of them stayed on, were off fat, and beat the hell out of each other...
...next week at West Point I was cheering for O'Brien, Butler, and Bender. I out-howled the Army major next to me watching the mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost...
That's the Harvard team I've tried to tell you about. They were battered and beaten away from home. They sweated before the season and during the season. They were weak and powerful. They were great in flashing moments. A stirring greatness at West Point. A day of shame at Princeton. But they are still a team
...Harvard game, they'll all be back, they always are. A ragged Hickman team beat Brown by 15 points, and a crippled one downed Wisconsin, which though hardly the class of the mid-west, is still a member of the Big Nine in good standing. Injury-riddled Yales threw a scare into Princeton...
Dean Korby-Miller west on to say that there have been complaints as to the conduct of examinations at Radcliffe. "Girls who did not wish to come and go as the honor system allows, and go as the honor system allows, and who wanted every moment for concentration, have felt there was undue distraction...