Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said: 'I had a hell of a time getting these away from Groves.' And it was signed with the initials...
...play beneath the boards. Both big men picked up eight field goals, with Rockwell knocking in rebounds and Smith scoring frequently on his hook shot. The high scorers played most of the way, finally bowing out to Captain Bill Prior and John Stevenson when the game was safely put away...
...paying for the heavy burdens of wars, depressions, and welfare services, our taxes have been raised so high that they are constituting in themselves an influence which leads away from freedom and towards socialism. They restrict the ability of the citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with...
...with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls can't get tants by sight and/or name as he watches the goings...
Tufts got away to a four-point lead with two baskets early in the game, but Harvard took the lead in the middle of the first period. After that, the game was never close, the Crimson expanding a five-point half-time lead into a runaway in the closing minutes...