Word: debit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debit side third-string center Tony Watters, hurt against Bucknell, is on the doubtful list for the Cornell encounter. Roy Williams, a halfback who sustained pulled ligaments in his knee two weeks ago, is not expected to return before the Columbia game a week from Saturday...
...Another debit is Furcolo's ineffectiveness as a party leader, shown by his inept attempt to institute a state sales tax. Also, corruption in the Department of Public Works has not been corrected. Furcolo is keeping out needed industry with his high tax policies and his insistence on a withholding tax; he foresees only an expansion of state expenditures in the future. It seems that neither Furcolo nor Gibbons has the potential to deal with the Massachusetts crisis...
Decisions. Everything the commissioners heard was not on the debit side. The 50 British Army centers of 80 years ago are now more than 20,000 in 86 countries, and the original band of 57 evangelists is now an army of more than 27,000 fulltime officers with hundreds of thousands of "soldiers" and local officers (the women's groups number 300,000). By the time the meeting closed (with a festive tea), the commissioners were confident that a new Army was on its way. Among decisions taken...
...debit side, the Crimson faces trouble in both dashes and both hurdles, the javelin, and the discus. Much will depend on the performances of Al Gordon in the 220; Dave Rosenthal in the lows; and John DeKiewiet in the discus...
...Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...