Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week U. S. football fans were ready to admit that Rockne was right. Taking over a feeble Stanford team that had failed to win a Pacific Coast Conference game last year, Coach Shaughnessy and his T formation (a sort of button-button -who's -got -the -button offensive ) transformed the wooden Indians into the most formidable team on the Coast...
...formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...
Down at Tech, to round out the picture, they won't even admit themselves to a cheerful or a gloomy outlook. They have three veterans back from their 41 to 28 victory in the opener last year, but the best of them. Captain Ronic Samuels may be out of the game with a bum leg. Three more men have shown promise but have never played before in a varsity game...
Even the signers admit "we cannot safely be indifferent to the outcome of the present wars," showing that they apparently recognize the impli- cations of the situation but shrink from facing them squarely...
Even hardheaded critics, who have long held that sculptural Virtuoso Milles sacrifices purity of line to superficial melodrama, had to admit that few living sculptors could match the sound & fury of his mystical, Norse fairyland in sculpture. Most impressive of the works displayed was his most recent: a surging, scowling winged bronze figure called Monument to Genius (see cut), which cut loose from Milles' polished style and told its story with roughhewn realism...