Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team as a whole has exceptional strength in skating ability and in the center position, an asset that should prove valuable to the varsity in future years. White sees teaching the Crimson style of play as his major problem and conservatively calls the team "much better than average...
...movie itself is a jumble of all the old show business plots, but then this is a huge gathering of all musicals. Glue for the mixture is a pleasing serum of Irving Berlin's tunes and a splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset, launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn...
...team's major problems, besides the inexperience of most players, was a lack of weight. Size, although not as important as in football, is a considerable asset in rigger, and strength in this department should be greatly increased in the spring...
...program of Baroque music, Fugal pieces for Three violins, buy John Austin '56, did not sound as well as they might have in the context of other contemporary works. The composer's most obvious asset is his sense of musical balance and proportion. Scoring for three equal instruments imposes severe demands on such ability, and if Mr. Akustin does not always succeed artistically the pieces are at least short enough to avoid monotony. As in the Modal Canons, his fascination with problems in counterpoint tends to exclude (or avoid) those of expression. But with such technical competence, perhaps he will...
Using its greatest asset, a superior third line, B.C. managed to tie the score one minute later with a goal by Paul Sheehy. In the final minute of the period, assisted by Bill Cleary and Jerry O'Malley, Ned Bliss netted his second goal of the night after catching the Eagle goalie off-balance with a shot in the upper left hand corner of the cage...