Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the year of Dartmouth's big drive for Ivy Athletic supremacy. The Indians have already wrapped up football, basketball and hockey, and this after noon at 3 p.m. they send their strongest tennis team in years against the varsity on the Soldiers Field courts. The Crimson, however, after an impressive 8-1 victory over Williams yesterday, figures to be ready and more than equal to the challenge...
Reasons for the delay were the uncertain legal status of the decision and the prevalent feeling that opponents of the proposed ban had not been properly notified of the drive. But Councillor Joseph A. De Gueglielmo '29, picked up strong support from the Cambridge Civic Association and from Councillor Charles Watson, who said he was "inclined to think they're almost all used for gambling...
Spreading to adults, Aycock's education drive produced the South's first great college extension service at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country...
...fancier of phobias, batho-to claustro-to thanato-, life aboard a submarine seems designed to drive a man out of his mind. Sealed inside a steel prison, the submariner is bored stiff for weeks at a time. His air comes out of a machine; his sun is a light bulb. And in a few swift seconds of combat he may meet a fate that the rest of the world knows only as a statistic...
Musicomedienne Gray can line-drive a song to the exits, Merman-fashion, but her Frenchy never travels more than one block west of Broadway. Griffith's Destry is immensely likable but far too much the Arkansas traveler to suggest any purpose deeper than palaver. Everyone works hard to prove that everything, except the performance, is a joke. But Destry Rides Again only for the gold in them thar box-office tills...