Word: default
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew stroked by Seligman won by default over Morris' crew in the first heat of the contest Monday. Stroke Steward and his oarsmen defeated an aggregation stroked by Emmet in the second, and Cunningham's crew won over Ross's in the third sprint...
...sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by default, he wins the audience's wholehearted admiration and sympathy...
...absorbed in the Tercentenary Celebration to worry about a Student Council. So the present system, elections, or rather lack of elections, complete absence of all student control over Council spending, and the most fantastic amending mechanism this side of Moscow, all became the law of the land by default...
...other quarter-finals have been played. Yesterday afternoon, Andy Muldoon advanced by default after his opponent failed to show up, earning a chance to challenge Bill Brady to determine the semi-finals opponent of Wightman...
...absorbed in the Tercentenary Celebration to worry about a Student Council. So the present system, elections, or rather lack of elections, complete absence of all student control over Council spending, and the most fantastic amending mechanism this side of Moscow, all became the law of the land by default...