Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leverett's pucksters put the hapless Kirkland team to complete rout, 12-0, in a game marked by the ineffectual efforts of the Deacon defense to cope with the superior Bunny forward line. The league-leading Winthrop six met a difficult test against Dudley's commuters, but Butcher's two goals led the Puritans to another triumph...
Upholding the opposite view was Albert Douglas, 3rd '42, who stated that "it is vitality important that students should recognize the trend of the times." If we are to cope with the staggering problems of post war reconstruction, he emphasized, we must train students in fields that have a direct bearing upon the part that they must play after graduation...
Beating Harvard to the gun, Radcliffe, has already had a satisfactory air-raid drill, and now reports itself well able to cope with any emergency that may arise during a blackout or an actual raid...
...somewhat wavering effect on box office. (But no show has perished, save possibly the highbrow In Time to Come, which deserved to live.) The war has also had a slightly paralyzing effect on playwrights. Serious writers have found the world's present plight too big to cope with, yet only five out of 50-odd plays this season have tried to cope with it. Farces and comedies have flopped as fast, and been as feeble, as dramas, for the good reason that playwrights have shamelessly aped other men's hits, exploited worn-out formulas, slapped their scripts together...
...make matters worse, this enormous increase will be very unevenly spread, will hit smaller cities-the least able to cope with it-hardest...