Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale came through the Princeton clash in its best physical shape of the season. Reserve center Win Lovejoy sprained an ankle but may be able to play on a limited scale Saturday...
...rebuffed by the United States and Great Britain. And in the economic sphere there is increasing agitation for an oil agreement with the Russian bloc. When Britain pinched off the flow of oil to Haifa's refineries in the hope of stalling Israel's military machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply all the oil Haifa could handle at a nominal price. The single hitch was that all excess gas would be sold to Eastern Europe, and for this reason the pact was rejected by the Israeli government. Any Anglo-American sanctions on Israel would...
...appointment came as a surprise to Oxonians, probably including John Lowe himself. When Vice Chancellor W.T.S. Stallybrass was killed in an accident a fortnight, ago (he was the first ever to die in office), his job should normally have gone to the next senior college head-Dr. John R. H. Weaver, president of Trinity. Dr. Weaver declined the appointment for reasons of health. Next in line: Dr. Cecil Maurice Bowra, warden of Wadham, who was at Harvard as a visiting professor and did not want to interrupt his visit to return to England. So the appointment fell to Lowe...
Sherwood's picture of life at the White House during the war years is one of the bright features of a very readable book. Hopkins came for dinner one evening, and was invited to stay for the night. He lived in Lincoln's old study for the next 3½ years. His desk was a card table, his bedroom was his office. In a sloppy dressing gown, Hopkins would traipse through the White House corridors to consult Roosevelt or Churchill. Usually he was miserably ill (cancer, ulcers, numerous complications), but at a word from F.D.R...
Trailing 12 to 6 at the end of three quarters, the Crimson came to life in the final period with a running and passing attack that netted two quick touchdowns. The entire game was played under an almost constant drizzle...