Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Crocker award was established in the spring of 1949 by a group of former Crimson football players in honor of the 155-pound end on the 1933 team who was killed during the war while serving on a destroyer. It goes to that varsity letterman who, in the opinion of his teammates, possesses initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness...
...Charles, for years a haven on Saturday evenings, is now getting a helping hand from nature. The bridge's foundations are currently sinking into the mud; a soft base has delayed the construction past its proposed completion date of October, and may even extend it to the Spring. In the end, a few more students will be herded into bars...
Rocky Stone guard on three Crimson squads, won a summa last spring for his thesis on aggression in football. He thinks, and at least three eastern coaches agree with him, that his theories could eventually be very useful in coaching. The Navy also agrees; it has been paying all the expenses of testing, both for Stone's initial work last fall, and for a check experiment now being run at another Ivy League college by Stone's broth C. Elliott. It hopes to use the data obtained in formulating a test to determine how men will react under pressure...
...spot ever since brash, bouncy David ("Tommy") Stern III bought the paper and became publisher 16 months ago (TIME, July 25, 1949). Fritchey seldom saw eye-to-eye with his boss on how to run the paper, ran into more trouble when Stern launched a Sunday edition last spring and began to lose heavily...
...hearings last spring in California, his former employees said Richards not only insisted that causes he favored receive a maximum amount of time on the air but also wanted opposing views minimized or suppressed. Richards' almost daily instructions to his staff were alleged to have included orders on one occasion to make General Bennett Meyers seem...