Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although massive radiation may help preserve Mr. Dulles, it would not be so salutary for either Germany or Europe. President Eisenhower's confidence in the recuperative power of his Secretary of State is touching, and perhaps only the President has showed more ability springing back from serious illness. Members of the Administration have proved amply their power to recover...
...third act, the playboy comes back from "the sports" where he wins his title, gorgeous in jockey's silks, and Mr. McNamara decides that it is time for him to grow into his heroic pose. In the ensuing love scene with Miss Carroll he plays it straight, and matches her in eloquence...
Comparative scores would seem to back their contention. Yale split with Princeton, winning 3 to 2 after bowing by a 3-1 score; the Crimson tied the Tigers, 5 to 5. In the last Dartmouth game Yale lost by a 5-4 count, the varsity by 4 to 3. The Elis upset B.U. by a 5-2 margin, while Harvard was held...
Convinced of its chances to win, Yale will play a more open game than last year, taking chances and forechecking, rather than laying back and trying to keep down the score. With a first line of three excellent hockey players, its scoring punch has increased substantially, even within the last two months...
Evidence which would seem to back up this theory was that the 27-day period of rotation of the sun (with its spots and flares thought to emit charged particles) corresponded roughly with the periods indicated by the satellites, and that the sharp increase in acceleration at the end of August was also two weeks of strong geomagnetic activity. The problem that remained was to find some traceable phenomenon of the sun that could be compared with the daily fluctuations in the acceleration of the satellites (by this time all five satellites showed the same acceleration characteristics, which occurred simultaneously...