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...even the most rigidly enforced penalty system cannot avert injuries when the men playing House football are in poor physical condition. When players complained of the strict conditioning program of 1942 and 1943, a softic Athletic Department cased required training and the injury list blossomed. This year with only a week and a half of pre-season practice and only one day of practice per week, players are unable to maintain the stamina and hardness necessary to avoid injury. To add further to a general picture of murderous laxity, House teams do not always observe the meager...
...interpretation, Dear Judas is provocative enough. It portrays a Judas who loves Jesus but finds Him grown too fond of power. This Judas betrays Jesus-in the belief that He will only be jailed for a day or two-to avert His later being seized as a revolutionist and killed. This new motive in a Biblical character brings no new drama to the story; indeed, the story has almost no drama, new or old. Read as a poem, Dear Judas has some effective if showy verse; recited as a play, it is almost as hard to follow as to enjoy...
...Appealed for general price cuts to avert an "economic cloudburst...
...even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. To those who best remembered him as a vociferous pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, Karl Mundt seemed a strange rescuer. In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of . . . meddling in the governments of Europe...
...YORK, April 21--President Truman today coupled a pointed demand for sharp price reductions with an appeal for home front "unity" to avert a major depression which would carry disaster for the forces of democracy the world over...