Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enter even Denver's special schools for retarded children, yet not so hopeless that they had to be shut away in a state institution. Said stouthearted Joe, after his last turndown: "If there's no school 'that can help my kids, by golly I'll build one myself...
...purpose of the alleged University ruling to give some kind of job security to football players. This job ruling represents the first time that the University has ever considered the position of the football player as a special case. It implies at least that Harvard is actually trying to build up a football team by attracting new material. All of which brings us to the peculiar inconsistency of the Bingham statement. While it announces that Harvard will cease to play major league football, it also outlines a concrete method for obtaining the material to make up a "big time" team...
...weeks ago, a Virginia power commission received two requests for permission to build power plants. One was from a private company which wanted to build a dam; the other was from a public company that was planning a steam generating plant. Both groups are planning to serve the same area...
...your responsibility because of your having hired Arthur Valpey as head coach, and on account of the dismal failure of the 1949 season. I confess that I agreed with your selection of Valpey last year, and believed that, given time, he would make his cycle offense work, and would build up a victorious team this year. Unfortunately, Valpey and his assistants not only did not live up to expectations, but produced the most inively and in forward passing--in the hisivell and in forward passing--in the history of Harvard football...
...background is a dream-invention: a single picture tube that glows in all colors simultaneously, but which will be "compatible" with the present-day black & white system. There have been many attempts to build such a tube, but none has succeeded so far. Many experts believe that color television should be postponed until such a tube, or something equally good, has been developed. To adopt either the CBS or the RCA system in the meantime, they argue, would be to freeze color television at a low level...