Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe in planning ahead to prevent mass unemployment? Where do we stand on nationalization? In short, what is our policy? From the bandstand, diehard ex-M.P. Sir Herbert Williams made a weary retort: "I don't know why people should worry so much about . . . policy. It isn't a thing you state, it grows out of circumstance...
Formula, Discipline, Showmanship. Sometimes the Holy Cross fathers who run Notre Dame wonder if the tail isn't wagging the dog-and hasten to insist that there is a university connected with the football team. It has 4,500 students, a good chemistry department (where a formula for synthetic rubber was discovered), one of the best libraries on Irish culture and history in the U.S., and some of the strictest discipline anywhere outside West Point and Annapolis...
...There isn't that much power anywhere...
...periods of fifteen minutes each in any one football game. If the spectacle on Soldiers Field Saturday had been prolonged very much whatever elation was felt when the final horn did blow would have evaporated into nothing. A big fresh team making hash out of a smaller tired team isn't much of a show, even for the Crimson cheering section . . . There was an uneasy feeling that this team, which, as everyone knows, doesn't run up 49-0 scores that belong to Texas couldn't have been a Harvard football or Alabama...
...half. What with errant center passes flying around the gridiron, and fumbles and penalties tying up the Crimson every time they neared paydirt, it looked as though a count of 7-0 or 14-0 might be on the board when it was all over . . . The scoreboard, incidentally, still isn't functioning fully and a new, automatic, electric job is expected momentarily...