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While quarterback Bob Hardy called only running plays on the wet field, the second varsity team varied its offense with ground and air plays for its ten minutes against the Yardling defense. Fullback Brian Reynolds and halfback Carroll Lowenstein piled up most of the yardage for Lloyd Jordan's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Culver Leads Ground Attack in Scrimmage | 10/28/1953 | See Source »

Regardless of injuries, odds, and even predictions of wet weather, a definite handicap to a passing team such as Dartmouth, Crimson Coach Lloyd Jordan is restricting any optimism about the outcome of the game...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

...posterity's benefit, another Dartmouth enthusiast gouged the 11-0 score into the still-wet concrete of the colonnade wall...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: The Classic Gridiron Marks its Golden Jubilee | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

...people-among them, 37.609) teachers, 772 custodians. 402 truant officers and hundreds of clerks, mechanics, architects, engineers and elevator operators. Many of its subsidiary works, such as legal condemnation of land for new schools and the purchase of supplies (411,500 rolls of toilet paper, $18,965 wet mops. $6,900,000 worth of books and school equipment every year) are big businesses in themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...between them before they start fighting-they don't just scratch; they dig in and bring away skin and meat." Said another instructor: "I have to fight to avoid sinking into the mire of their emotions." Said a Brooklyn science teacher: "I have to be 90% warden, 7% wet nurse and 3% teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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