Word: defaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman D squash team defeated Middle sex School, 3 to 2, at the University Squash Courts Saturday. The Crimson took the first two matches, and won a third by default. Their two wins were in straight sets...
...with all its copy in, won the race and managed to reach the stands by May. The delay in printing '47-'48, with all its copy in, won the race and managed to reach the stands by May. The delay in printing '47-'48 caused the '46 Album to default on its promise to come out in time for the third reunion...
...FORTUNE, Journalist Davenport, an able reporter, analyst and critic of many phases of the U.S. and world economy, did corporation stories and FORTUNE'S monthly Business Roundup, conducted a column (Books & Ideas), wrote editorials and such notable politico-economic articles as "Socialism by Default," an analysis of the U.S. drift toward collectivism. He was also coauthor, with LIFE's Charles J. V. Murphy in 1945, of The Lives of Winston Churchill, and helped edit and summarize conclusions of the first Harriman report on Europe (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947) and the Hoover commission reports...
...newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that if capitalism ignores its responsibilities, "we'll get the welfare state by default...
...most conspicuous failure of the Congress was its default on two of Truman's favorite items, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law and civil rights legislation. In both cases, a defection in his own party stymied the President...