Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading 42 to 39 with five minutes to go, the Yardling quintet succumbed to a Bruin surge led by Frank Mahoney and Ben Patrick and three minutes later was on the short end of a 46 to 42 score. Center Pat Dailey's two-pointer under the basket and high-scorer John Rockwell's foul shot with slightly more than a minute to play brought the Crimson to 45, but the crowd came to its feet in vain with five seconds remaining as Rockwell's one-hander slithered off the rim and the horn sounded...
Free but Not Easy. City College was the first tuition-free, city-owned U.S. college (nine cities now own colleges), and was started, according to its first president, West Pointer Horace Webster, as an "experiment [in] whether the highest education can be given to the masses...
...tell you. Find out his favorite subject and take that course when he gives it; do it often enough and you'll have an education. What happens when a fine lecturer with loving knowledge of his specialty teaches that very specialty is illustrated by Frederick Merk, his watch, his pointer, and his History of the Westward Movement. Implacable enemy of the land speculator, chronicler of lusty American frontier democracy, the slight, earnest Professor is considered by many to have assumed the mantle of the late F. J. Turner as leading historian of the American West...
...students. From his opening "At the last hour . . ." to the end of the period, Professor Merk is an arresting spectacle. His gold pocket watch is on the lectern immediately. At intervals he picks it up, gestures sweepingly with it in his fingers; or he stands staunchly at attention, map-pointer towering like a lance at his side, as he sums up an historical conflict in memorable words like "a struggle between brandy...
...good coffin corner kick by Giby Warren late in the final period set up the safety, the Jayvees' fourth in three games. There was a bad pass from center to the Wentworth punter in the end zone, and center Bob Grady dropped the kicker for the final two-pointer...