Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time this season. Cornell also came up with a cohesive, diversified attack, using quarterbacks Rick Furbush and Bill Arthur to tremendous advantage on running plays, and. when it had to piercing the Crimson secondary for crucial passing yardage. From the first, it was evident that Harvard could not stop both threats...
...than its maker. It made headlines in 1926 when the U.S. Customs Bureau refused to let it in the country duty-free, claiming that it was not art but mere metal. In the comic-opera court proceedings that followed, a group of American art lovers won a modest but crucial ruling: that to be art, a work by a recognized sculptor need not bear a striking resemblance to a natural object. Whether or not the decision affected the course of art, it sharply changed the official practices of the U.S. Customs Bureau. But in all the brouhaha, Bird came...
...crucial question is whether the lag in productivity is only temporary. There are several indications that the change may endure. The main thrust of the U.S. economy has shifted from producing goods to providing services. Last year work in Government and services together consumed 50% more man-hours of labor than the production of goods. Thanks to improving technology, productivity is still gaining in manufacturing; it has climbed at a 3½% annual rate so far in 1969. Outside of manufacturing, where the best way to raise efficiency is to induce people to perform better, productivity has fallen...
...freshman cross-country squad warmed up for their crucial meet with Cornell on Saturday by shutting out Andover Academy yesterday. 15-50. Harvard took the first 11 places in recording its seventh victory without a defeat...
...Harvard football is pretty big. But I think that Yovicsin considers it to be a lot bigger and more important than it really is. Of course. if Champi were indispensable to the team. then the decision would have been more crucial. but I don't think anyone who was really informed ever felt that his departure would deal a crushing blow to Harvard's chances for success. Smith had shown himself to be of about the same ability as Champi early in the season. So how big a decision was it. Yovicsin referred to it as "such a big decision...