Word: dual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talking-the President or the politician? Harry Truman's call for a special session of Congress was made at a political convention; it would be judged largely on its political motives and for its political effect. Harry Truman, who, like all Presidents, occupies a dual position as head of the Government and leader of a political party, had used his powers as President to further his party's fortunes...
M.I.T. proved an unshakable jinx later that week, nosing out the Crimson, 57 to 51, in a dual meet on the Charles, and placing third, just ahead of Harvard in the Ivy League championships in a later regatta. Brown, the most powerful naval force in the East, were masters of their home waters in this meet, riding home the winner with Yale following them in for a second...
Brown and M.I.T. had outsped the Crimson sailors in previous meets while the Elis had already beaten them in an earlier meet and bowed in a dual contest...
...sprinter, Tom Carney, and a capable broadjumper, Bill Maze. But the Terriers knuckled under to Amherst last Saturday, 80 to 53, while Harvard was snapping a 12-year Rhode Island State dual meet winning skein...
...event and picked up five important points against the team his father coaches. Plus 25 in the field events offset a minus 17 in the running events to give the Crimson a 74 to 66 win. The defeat was Rhode Island's first in 12 years of dual competition...