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...score at half time: 20-6. In the second half, while Princeton's hard-charging defensive line smothered the Cornell backs, the Tiger single-wing offensive burst the Cornell team wide open. The final score: 53-15, for Princeton's 18th straight victory, and the longest major winning streak in the nation. Said Cornell Coach Lefty James: "Kazmaier is the greatest back I've seen since I've been coaching football. I think he's far more valuable than Tommy Harmon was to Michigan or Blanchard and Davis were to Army...
Because the cathartic value of free discussion is held in such high esteem at Open, a friendly rivalry has sprung up among the professors to see whose half-year course can take the longest. Present leader is a social science course on Thought and Institutions, which takes more time to put forth its material than even the most optimistic sociologist would hope to predict...
...with the end of summer, pressure began to grow for a faster perusal. As the longest legislative session in Commonwealth history was slowly grinding to a discordant end, foes of the red bills realized that the proposals would have to be reported out and voted on. They thought they might tie up proceedings by fomenting a quarrel between the House and the Senate over their respective bills, an argument that would extend beyond the current session's closing time...
...presidential yacht Williamsburg would soon sail for Key West, and Truman expects to follow by air on Nov. 8. It will be the President's first real vacation in almost eight months, and, if he sticks to the present plan for a five-week stay, the longest since he took office...
...cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...