Word: downs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down, Boy! In Liverpool, England, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the sale of a toy rocket ship containing a plastic dog in its nose cone.
On the 116th day of the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history, the Supreme Court upheld the emergency procedure of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act as "a public remedy in times of emergency," gave force to a Taft-Hartley injunction ordering 500,000 steelworkers back to the ore mines...
...hapless Bruins. However, the game was not as satisfactory as the score makes it seem. As the CRIMSON of Nov. 4, 1901, put it, "Harvard defeated Brown on Saturday by a score of 48 to 0, in an uninteresting and poorly played game. Harvard was not once held for downs, while Brown was able to gain a first down only once...
One proposal, approved by nearly all and sorely needed, is to introduce a greater flexibility into the program through increased use of half-year courses. Presently over half of the seventeen courses offered run from September to June. Many of these, it is admitted, could be pared down to a...
This leads to the proposal for a new type course to replace the far-flung surveys. They would probe smaller areas, but penetrate deeper. Based on the combined desire to attract more students, and the premise that the goal is a more intelligent understanding of the public issues of the...