Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth, Chicago fifth, the Red Sex sixth, will win only new fans--even those by default. Detroit and the Browns, both Western teams, will fight it out for the cellar...
Eliot's Charlie Querfeld advanced into second place behind Ciami by default after Dave Kenny, from Lowell, had been disqualified. Kenny outpionted Querfeld in the round-robin finals, but was later ruled ineligible for intramural competition because he had fenced in the Inter-collegiates...
...during the war, last week were back to 140. As if to prove that the financially dead sometimes do rise, even in satellite countries. Poland agreed a fortnight ago to pay an installment of interest to French (but not American) holders of its bonds, which have been in default since...
Almost by default. Chaves has become boss of one of the Americas' most complete dictatorships. After the presidency had changed hands four times in a year, Chaves, a self-educated lawyer and lifelong politico, engineered a coup that put bumbling Dr. Felipe Molas López, a 50-year-old dentist, in power in 1949. But even Don Federico could not stand the dentist long; in another coup, he installed himself as President. That was enough coups, he decided; next year he had himself elected...
Lowell's swim team took two on the chin, losing to both Eliot and Leverett by default. Eliot downed Leverett, 32 to 16. Adams defeated Dudley by the same score before losing to the Deacon paddlers. Dunster's 29-19 triumph over Winthrop completed swim action...