Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton unveiled a new running star, Tom Morris, in throughly trampling a hapless Columbia team, 39 to 0, for the Lions' second straight Ivy loss. Columbia's star quarterback and passer, Claude Benham, received a brain concussion late in the first quarter to further dampen Columbia hopes...
...successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions between NATO partners Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, to dampen neutralist swings in Greece...
...Committee's recommendations for the theatre proper should not dampen the spontaneity of student productions. But its recommendations for a faculty "Director of the Theatre" suggest College control, or at least domination, of a field whose main virtue has been its independant enthusiasm. There is no doubt that a Professor of considerable rank and popularity will be needed to arrange program schedules and to assign priorities. There are serious doubts, however, about the value of the recommendation that, "He should be responsible for policy and should administer and schedule the program of the theatre." Student directors have serious and, perhaps...
...cold, however, didn't dampen the traditional tone of the Yale weekend. Rather it provided an added stimulus to post-game entertainment, and along with the greased pigs and the CRIMSON'S speedy extra, was a part of every cocktail conversation. The extra was in fact the second publication of the day by Crimeds, the first being issue number three of the New Haven edition inaugurated last spring...
...Flute and Guitar by Kaspar Furstenau, a contemporary of Beethoven. Its rather uninteresting music was partially redeemed by the sparkling flute playing of Karl Kraber, and the rare use of a guitar as the accompanying instrument. Richard Zaffron handled this part adequately, but with a curious disinclination to dampen a string once sounded...