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Word: defaults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although there was generally fall turnout by most teams, Mower managed to default four of its seven games...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: Yard Closes Best Intramural Season In History | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...situation as it now exists in Massachusetts has developed in part by default on the part of individuals and the community at large to recognize the scope of the problem in all its implications; e.g.; the fact that an important percentage of the overall income is being diverted to organized syndicated gambling activities which might otherwise be used for a variety of constructive and, in many instances, necessary purposes, and the fact that a substantial part of the amounts bet contributes to the enrichment of anti-social and dangerous criminal groups. General attitudes toward the problem of gambling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookies, Racketeers Thrive in Square | 5/3/1950 | See Source »

...Constitution, the founding fathers summed up Harry Truman's job in four brief paragraphs and summed it up well. But time made its own additions. By accident, default, assumption of powers and slow accretion, the presidency had become a lot more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man of the World | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...College team gained a 9-0 victory over the Crimson on Monday while North Carolina took two, 12-1 on Tuesday and 13-0 Wednesday. The lone Harvard win of the first three days came when the North Carolina number three man dislocated his knee and was forced to default his match. Both North Carolina and Davidson boasted nationally ranked players in the high positions with competent, experienced amateurs lower down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Splits Spring Trip Games; Tennis Squad Returns With 1-4 Record | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Last week, after 22 years and still no sign of a tunnel, the money went by default to secondary legatees, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Bowdoin College. Corpus Christi officials were in a no-comment mood about the whole thing. The official attitude: the tunnel had always seemed rather unnecessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Tunnel | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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