Word: though
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week, though Happy had announced his intention to "serve until the last second of my tenure of office" (April 30, 1952), the club owners were looking for a new commissioner...
...Though football fans wondered about Coach Frank Leahy's future after Notre Dame's worst season in 17 years (4-4-1), his boss at Notre Dame was in no doubt. Last week, at the annual football dinner, President John J. Cavanaugh announced that Leahy was getting a "substantial" increase in salary (this year estimated at $15,000). Furthermore, in case anybody thought Notre Dame was going to 1) abandon big-time football, or 2) join in "the chicanery" of checkbook recruiting, he was mightily mistaken. "We are flatly and irreconcilably against paying football players directly or indirectly...
...Though the first show did little to illumine or interpret the news, it managed to move quickly and interestingly from event to event. Murrow, who hopes the first few programs will serve as a shakedown cruise, says: "It's something you have to worry over, and make your mistakes and get some informed criticism...
...Though developed on TV, Captain Video's influence is not limited to its round-eyed televiewers. Last month Fawcett Publications put the captain between the covers of a comic book. Last week Columbia Pictures announced the filming of a 15-episode movie serial based on the captain's adventures. Says Caddigan proudly: "I guess we've arrived...
Large nuclear reactors need vast quantities of cooling water, and it must be water of a very special sort. The plutonium plant at Hanford, Wash. was built there because of the Columbia River, but Columbia water did not prove entirely satisfactory. Though clear and cold and plentiful, it contains a large amount of dissolved solids, some of which become radioactive when they are carried through the reactors...