Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proceeds from the performance will go to the Circolo's Scholarship Fund, and will be used to establish a prize for the best paper or thesis written on the subject of Itale-American relations by a student in an Italian university...
...even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
...Even though the number one man, Henry Foster will be out with a broken ankle and the number three man, Joe Clark, will be unable to make the trip, Coach Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of winning Friday. "This year's squad is probably the best since the war," he asserted yesterday, "and I believe this is so because our long range policy of letting anyone play who wants to has paid off." Three members of the starting nine have never played squash before coming to Harvard...
Discussing the present "cold war," the Vermont solon declared that a giant advertising campaign behind the Iron Curtain was the best way in which to avert another World...
...second feature, includes a pathos-laden "This Is America" short on an ex-GI who revisits his old battlegrounds; a Lowell Thomas piece about the California redwoods; a Bugs Bunny cartoon; Jan August in a few piano numbers; and "Football Headlines of 1949." The last-named is the best film the RKO Keith has to offer at the moment...