Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* Father Larraona has been teaching, writing and lecturing in Rome for 40 years, where he has held a number of posts in the Curia. As the first Claretian cardinal in history, he will be permitted by his order to change his brown robes for scarlet, provided that they are of wool...
...since the 19303, when Bronko Nagurski was crumpling lines for the Chicago Bears, have football fans seen such a numbing fullback as the Cleveland Browns' young (23) Jimmy Brown. Magnificently muscled (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.), Brown has a sprinter's speed, strength enough to carry along a brace of tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom...
...before, Curtice and Anderson, friends for 35 years, had joined G. Arthur Brown and their host, George W. Kennedy, board chairman of the Kelsey-Hayes Co., at an exclusive businessmen's duck-hunting preserve on Ste. Anne's Island, on the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair. After a good night's sleep in the island's lodge, the four hunters rose late, sampled the icy (17°) morning air, had a leisurely breakfast. By 9:45 a.m. Curtice and Anderson were seated side by side on cartridge cases behind their blind, with 12-gauge shotguns...
...LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (338 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison -Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...come from behind to do it. The Yardlings scored three late touchdowns in mud and water at Dartmouth to win, 18 to 6, and also needed three eleventh-hour scores (thanks mainly to halfback Hobie Armstrong) to overcome a 6-0 deficit and finally triumph, 20 to 6, over Brown...