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Word: winging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wiseacres cited two grounds for their criticism of Harvard coaching: 1. Valpey should have installed the T-formation instead of the single wing, and 2. He didn't "bring the boys up for the Yale game." We believe this is rubbish...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

This worship of the T formation shows a complete abandonment of rational evaluation. Dick Harlow used the single wing for seven years at Harvard before the war, and nobody complained. Fritz Crisler and Benny Oosterbaan use the single wing at Michigan and have collected three straight conference titles. Art Valpey used the single wing last year, won four games, and nobody squawked. Yet now after Harvard has had a dismal season, everybody thinks the single wing is no good...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Blame the Single Wing...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...close associate of the general in postliberation days, Bidault said last spring: "We are ready to rally around the prodigious name of General de Gaulle." No Gaullist deputy had voted against Bidault when he formed his new government. . Into this situation the newspaper L'Epoque, right-wing but not Gaullist, last week tossed a sensational story. In a signed front-page article, Editor Andre Bougenot declared: "Several important political personalities were recently shown the text of a secret protocol, signed by General de Gaulle and Georges Bidault." The deal, according to Bougenot, was that Bidault, if he became Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man in the Wings | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...trouble with the South, said Alabama's New Dealing Aubrey Williams in 1947, was that most of its brains and talent went North. That, he added modestly, included himself. By faithfully serving Franklin D. Roosevelt in the left wing of the New Deal, Williams had risen high in the WPA, was National Youth Administrator for five years. But in 1945, when the Senate rejected his nomination as Rural Electrification Administrator because of his leftish views, his northern political star blinked out. Williams packed up his talents and headed south again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Something Thrown In | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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