Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Girls should wear hats outdoors. (Hatlessness is a "definite sign of inferior class...
...turned that way to give battle. After two hours' steaming they sighted four Italian cruisers and closed in, firing. The Italians turned tail, belching smoke. After a half-hour's chase, the British cruisers sighted the Italian battleships, one of the Cavour and one of the Littorio class, which opened with their biggest guns (12.6-in. and 15-in.). With heavy metal flying around them, the British now turned off, inviting pursuit by the speedy Italians...
...Grange, who had made 31 touchdowns in his varsity career, had been lured into the Chicago Bears' line-up-at a reputed $10,000 a game-the week after he played his last game for Illinois. Nowadays, college footballers cannot play professional ball until their class has graduated. But any player who in eight games can score 16 touchdowns, throw seven touchdown passes, convert 18 points-after-touchdown and kick a field goal-to give his team 159 of their 196 points-is good whenever the pros can get him. The Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins had each reportedly...
Scientific Eating. Early crusader for fruits and vegetables was Sylvester Graham, advocate of wholemeal Graham bread. In Manhattan a Graham boardinghouse was founded, and middle-class intellectuals eagerly took up vegetable diets along with bloomers and female suffrage. (At this time some zealots founded a "Society for the Suppression of Eating...
Veteran Ted Schoenberg, of the 128-pound class, a letterman of two years standing, will probably turn in the best performance this afternoon, with 155-pound Dick Thomas, another letterman, a close accord. Johnny Burnham and Tom Rogsiad, two of last year's numeral winners, will contend in the 121 and unlimited classes, while Senior Dick Davidson will grapple in the 165-pound spot...