Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting trite to speak of Harvard's football coach as "cologist" or "ornithologist" Harlow, but John Kieran has one of the keys to Crimson gridiron success every time he uses that stock description. Dick studies football the way he studies his pet flora and fauna, and has achieved recognition as one of the nation's top experts in both fields. One of his coaching assistants put it this way: "When Dick decides he wants to know about something, he really studies it. Two years ago he got interested in ferns and now he's crossing up the professors...
Responsibility for the success of the program must lie principally with the undergraduates. Yet only one House has seen fit to give the Yardlings representation on its Committee. Greater efforts must be made to organize teams, record dances and tournaments within the House; notices of such events must be posted in the Freshman dormitories. Upperclassmen and June Freshmen alike must abandon their traditional reserve to attempt to help Freshmen get acquainted in their House. This is no longer a case where the Freshmen themselves are apathetic, as in last summer's experiments with class unity. The Yardlings have shown...
...burn treatment, in which a wax film is sprayed from a flit gun on damaged tissues, was described last week by Lieut. Commander Ralph Cooper Pendleton of the Navy Medical Corps. The new treatment was used with success on 97 sailors who were badly burned at Pearl Harbor and removed to Mare Island Naval Hospital (on San Francisco Bay). Now it is fast being adopted by more & more surgeons aboard the Navy's ships...
...August, NBC came up with an answer: a professionally paced, smartly put-together show called Eyes Aloft (Mondays, 6 p.m. P.W.T.). Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd. Vetoing stuffy talks, Redd sold NBC and the Army on a heartwarming story of A.W.S. volunteers at work. Like an efficient census-taker, he visited 2,000 observation posts and filter centers, jotted down true stories of the modern air Reveres that give the program its dramatic highlights. Some of them...
Between the low pit of Allied fortunes (the collapse of France, June 1940) and the high tide United Nations success reached this week, the U.S. economy did this...