Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aided by a 35-mile per hour tail-wind, right inside Charlie Polletti headed in a corner kick with only four minutes left to play. Dunster pressed hard during the first half, but could not break through the powerful Eliot defense. With only three games left in the season, Eliot appears a sure bet for the title...
With this terse statement, Princeton officially ended athletic relations with Harvard some 31 years ago this Nov.11. The reasons for this break were not a stolen drum or an injured linesman but a feeling "of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman and cares more for athletic victories than clean sportsmanship." Whether or not this feeling was prompted by the Tigers beating the Crimson 36-0 and 34-0 in 1924 and 1925 is unknown; the fact is that the two institutions did not compete against one another in any sport until...
...press conference yesterday, Hynek stated that there was not sufficient evidence to assume that the satellite had split, since only one report out of thousands observed such a break...
...schools to raise tuition fees would bear heavily on the already hard-pressed student, and would do little to close their budget wounds. Upshot: despite heavy contributions, notably those raised by the Fund for Medical Education that Ike praised, the schools still need $10 million a year to break even...
...Wall Street it was the most hectic week in years. The stock market, which has been sliding gradually downhill for three months, suddenly nose-dived and opened the week with the biggest one-day break since 1955. The Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted ten points to 423.06, lowest level since May 1955. Every major group took a beating in the slump, with drops in such stocks as Du Pont, American Telephone & Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Alcoa and all but three of the 25 rails...