Word: closer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because many of the runners were close together throughout the race, the final outcome was not decided until the last 200 yards. Although the score was closer than expected, Coach McCurdy felt that the varsity had turned in its best performance of the year yesterday...
Ducking, snapping and sneering, Hoffa came no closer to the jug. But his performance, laced with an exquisite contempt for Bob Kennedy and the rest of the committee (Q.: Why did he deposit $300,000 in Teamster funds in a Florida bank? A.: "Because I wanted to"), left no doubt that James Riddle Hoffa still regards his morals and methods as being beyond the question of anybody, least of all 1,600,000 dues-paying Teamsters. Teamster morals and methods uncovered last week...
...confession was overwhelming. Neighbors stopped by to shake hands, telegrams poured in, both phones jangled incessantly. Financier Bernard Baruch, U.N. Mediator Frank Graham and Adlai Stevenson sent their firm support. Poet Carl Sandburg, who wrote the introduction to Golden's book, told a reporter: "This only ties me closer to him." Wired a New York friend: "So what else...
...University moved one step closer towards complete co-education this fall with the opening of Wyeth Hall for women graduate students enrolled in the University...
Thomas D. Bolles, director of athletics, has praised the Varsity Club for providing "a closer tie between the interested alumni and the Harvard athletic program...