Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rains Bill Came. It was on the vote to substitute the Herlong bill for the Rains bill that the crucial test would surely come. Sam Rayburn determined to win at all cost. He summoned his lieutenants, prepared for action, and growled: "I like to lick 'em on the first...
...evident from last Wednesday's CRIMSON that the coming year will be most crucial for the future of Harvard Athletics. For during this period the administration will decide whether to continue full support of the athletic program or whether to put a ceiling on athletic expenditures. If the latter course is adopted, such sports as wrestling, soccer, and 150-lb. crew would presumably be reduced to club status...
...course, no team that compiles a 13-8 record overall, wins the Greater Boston League championship, and defeats both Princeton and Yale, could be called a failure or anything like it. Superficially, indeed, the season has been quite a success.... But the memory of those five losses in crucial Eastern League games is not easily effaced. It is hard to escape the feeling that things might have turned out a lot better than they actually...
...what is going on in Eastern Europe. More important, Berlin constitutes the Soviet empire's greatest escape hatch. Through West Berlin every day there still pass some 250 East Germans-not just the aged and infirm, but the ablest and most vigorous citizens of an East German satellite crucial to Moscow's economic and political plans...
...Eastern Region, is almost solely responsible for raising the Ibos from tribal backwardness to their present positions in government in the Eastern Region and in education. A British-educated barrister. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region, runs the most efficient government of all. But the crucial fact remains that the Sardauna in the north rules a land of ancient walled cities and feudal emirs that is more than three times the size of the other two regions put together and in the next federal Parliament will hold 174 out of 320 seats...