Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Burt Whitman of the Herald: "The best I can do on this one is to say that everything depends on the boys' mental and physical condition as they take the field. Harvard should prove superior of the ground, but she will have to beat of a dangerous aerial onslaught. The Crimson forward wall has the call over it's rival...
...alongside of that statement President Conant's persistent efforts in the present emergency in behalf of a Selective Training Act under which the hullabaloo of drumming up recruits was to be replaced by an orderly selection of men for the tasks for which they are best fitted, small ground for a charge of inconsistency would-be found...
Eventually one of the exhibit halls on the ground floor of the Museum will be remodeled to provide space for special exhibits. In the meantime small exhibits are to be arranged in the front entrance hall. The next one opens before Thanksgiving and will deal with the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the life of the peoples of the American before the coming of the Whites...
Last summer it made arrangements to broadcast from Hyde Park and Elwood, Ind., in honor of the Presidential candidates. Unfortunately, after the Elwood show was set to go, Newschief Paul White of CBS, to which Vox Pop transferred in 1939, forbade any mention of Wendell Willkie, on the ground that his name was controversial. Obediently Interlocutors Johnson & Butterworth discussed with the citizens of Elwood the Tomato Festival then taking place. This went on until an old gaffer cackled: "Why don't you ask about the most important thing in Elwood-Wendell Willkie? Man and boy I've known...
...half time, it looked bad for the Indians. Jim Phelan's Huskies, using power after power play, had ground through to a touchdown in the second quarter. In the third quarter, things got still worse. Washington, capitalizing on a bobbled pass from Stanford's centre on fourth down, got the ball on the 19-yard line, chalked up three more points with a magnificent field goal. Then, near the end of the third period, the Indians took the ball on their own 29-yard line, gained 15 yards through the line. Frankie Albert, their southpaw passer, flipped...