Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference's annual poll, which correctly picked Cornell as last year's winner, looked for a three way battle between Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Princeton this year, with Penn the probable winner...
Meeting in New York, the eight sports heads created the new leagues by changing the names of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League and Pentagonal Hockey League to Ivy. This is the directors' first move toward extending round-robin competition within the Ivy Group to sports other than football...
...scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon 14, like a soprano in a boiler factory, cannot be heard above...
Less cold air from the Arctic will come to New England, Brooks said, because of a unique combination of November pressures over the North Atlantic Ocean, and temperatures in eastern and central North America. He cited 14 instances including last fall, in the last 77 years, in which this phenomenon occurred...
Dartmouth invited the seven senior division teams of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association...