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Ernie Nevers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...two years of college football, including a Rose Bowl appearance, he was never thrown for a loss...University retired his number when he graduated. Rose Bowl Heroics Nevers performance in the 1925 Rose Bowl earned him national recognition. The...
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Paul Bryant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...defeated Stanford University in the Rose Bowl. After graduation in 1936 he...Orange, Sugar, and Cotton bowls. He left Kentucky in 1954 to...participating in the Cotton Bowl because of recruiting violations...lost to Tennessee in the Gator Bowl, but Bryant had coached his...
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Football
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...American sports field. The Yale Bowl (1913) held 67,000, and...boosters instituted postseason bowl games on the model of Pasadena's Rose Bowl (1901) in Miami (Orange...games. In the 1960s attendance rose by 50 percent while television...
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Tom Landry
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...13 division titles, five Super Bowl appearances, and two Super Bowl victories. His overall record...In 1948, Texas won the Sugar Bowl, and in 1949 his team won the...coordinator Vince Lombardi, who later rose to fame as coach the Green Bay...
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Grainger, Percy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...first teacher and coach. In 1895 Rose took Percy to Europe for further...who had been estranged from Rose and Percy since 1890, died in...following a long illness. In 1922 Rose Grainger died from complication...it was staged at the Hollywood Bowl before 20,000 paying guests...
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nipples
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...child reaches toward a fruit bowl, while further back a wet...shape echoes the fruit in the bowl before her. In their configuration...beautiful nipple was compared to a rose, since the word ‘...Comparison of the Nipple to the Rose (1761) makes the connection...
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glass
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...increased and the number of glasshouses rose to eleven by 1825, Dublin dominating...totally inaccurate. Some decanters, finger bowls, and jugs, however, have impressed...Some designs, such as the turnover rim bowl, the canoe shaped bowl, and the piggin, do seem to have been...
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Rescue Remedy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...essences of star of Bethlehem, rock rose, impatiens, cherry plum, and...Clematis Cherry plum Impatiens Rock rose Star of Bethlehem method or by...are floated in a clear glass bowl filled with natural spring water...trauma or bereavement. Rock rose. For terror, panic attacks...
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Pasadena
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...medical supplies, and computers. Pasadena is the scene of the annual Tournament of Roses and of the postseason college football game held (Jan. 1) in the Rose Bowl (seating 100,000 spectators). The city is also the seat of the California Institute...
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Grapes of Wrath, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...expropriated Oklahoma farmers from the Dust Bowl region, set out in a dilapidated automobile...youth who admires Tom's calm strength; Rose of Sharon, absorbed in love for her weak...as a labor organizer. During a storm, Rose of Sharon gives birth to a stillborn child...
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