Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that...
...made it clear what boundaries he would want. Going to a map on the wall, he traced the present Israeli lines in the Negeb. The pointer he used was a rifle cartridge stamped with the date 1948 and two tiny Stars of David. "Our own manufacture," he said proudly...
...first period and Roger Pugh added the extra point on a buck to give the Mastodons a 7-0 bulge. Although Dudley went over in the second quarter, the touchdown was called back because of an offside penalty. Then, in the final canto, the winners produced their second six-pointer when Jim Rossiter went off tackle from...
...Middle" took over first place, with a decisive 30 to 0 win over Wigglesworth E--K. Back Tom Rogers starred for the victors by connecting three touchdown passes, two to Murphy and one to Lovely. Murphy also scored again on a pass from Smith, while Lovely heaved a six-pointer to Anderson...
Straus oked out a narrow 12 to 8 decision over Thayer "South." Hugh Raphael hit Tom Fraher and Fran McCoy with touchdown serials to give Straus both its scores, while Jack Murphy heaved a six-pointer to Jack Kreps for the Southmen of Thayer. The losers also got two points in the last quarter on a safety when Kreps nabbed Raphael behind the goal...