Word: yarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held to a mere 21 yards), but Georgia won anyway, 33-to-13. ¶ Fullback Bobby Layne, who is deep in the heart of Texas' fans, got stopped cold by Arkansas' big line, took to the air and pitched one 45-yard pass, another 50-yarder for touchdowns. ¶ A big Armenian (220 Ibs.) named Alexander ("The Great") Sarkisian loomed large in the of Northwestern's line and helped hold favored Michigan...
Roughness was the keynote of the day, with the first Crimson score coming directly after two successive roughing penalties. Cleo also had a 15-yarder called against him for forcing a H.C. back into the wall, but close observers attributed it more to boos from the Holy Cross side than to Cleo's play. Fortunately, the Harlowmen came away without injuries. HARVARD HOLY CROSS Coulson, l.e. r.e., Roberts Dewey, l.t. r.t., Strojny Rodis, l.g. r.g., Cregar Fisher, c. c., Kruoff Drvaric, r.g. l.g., Reilly Davis, r.t. l.t., Parker Florentino, r.e., l.e., Dieckelman Goethals, q.b. q.b., Ball O'Donnell, l.h.b. r.h.b...
...mystery, the play's suspense lies partly in the killer's make-up and machinations, partly in a Scotland Yarder's careful detective work. Unfortunately the two parts do not cooperate over well. As a study in detection, Hand in Glove lacks the right cat-&-mouse touch because the criminal's guilt-edged behavior lets the cat too quickly out of the bag. As a study of twisted personalities, it lacks the depth that would make the killer terrifying, lacks the intensity that would make the imbecile a final agent of horror. Instead...
International Lady (United Artists) chronicles the adventures of three very nice people: a .U.S. G-Man (George Brent), a Scotland Yarder (Basil Rathbone), and a beauteous spy (Ilona Massey). How this pleasant trio happened to get involved in a Nazi effort to sabotage U.S. shipments of war planes to Britain is a mystery. They should have been having tea together in some cozy...
APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...