Word: beating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intramural world received no major shocks yesterday. Dunster beat Kirkland, 36 to 26, and Leverett beat previously undefeated Eliot, 34 to 29, in A League basketball; the Squash League resumed play after its vacation layoff; and the gallant hockey players prepared for their first dawn practice of the pre-exam season today...
...League basketball Leverett topped Eliot 32 to 22. Kirkland, using its reserves down to the D team, beat Dunster 31 to 25, and Winthrop had a field day against Lowell, ending up with the scorers in exhaustion and a score...
...conductors go, he had made the tactical mistake of following Arturo Toscanini to a podium that had taken all of the Maestro's fire and ice to control. As boss of the proud, 106-year-old New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Barbirolli had neither Toscanini's precise beat nor his fearsome bearing. The musicians were soon in a state of anarchy. Barbirolli left unhappily after seven years...
...turned out 800,000, by year's end it was working at a 2,000,000-a-year clip. In its revolutionary sweep, television scared the wits out of radio (radio set production dropped 24% under 1947) and Hollywood (which hastily decided to join rather than try to beat the enemy). It promised industry an entirely new technique in remote control in plants (in New York, a supervisor in a power plant kept tabs on his plant by means of a television screen...
Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...