Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coaches mean over 7-6 defeats, yet Mills' training enabled me to kick twenty-two out of twenty-five points after touchdown in 1936" Murray says. "Last fall ninety-eight games were lost by this one-point margin, and countless others were decided on faulty punting. Unless coaches wake up, 1939 will be no different...
Oldest lecture foundation at Harvard, the Dudleian was established in 1751 under the bequest of Paul Dudley, 1690, who bequeathed to the College the sum of 133 pounds, six shillings, eight pence...
...other hand, the Committee of Eight envisaged a considerable expansion in the ranks of associate professors. While there was no mention of the matter, this suggestion carried with it the inescapable implicit assumption that many of the increased number of associate professors could never be advanced--that they would have to be appointed without predictable vacancies ahead of them. In view of this, President Conant could easily have appointed the men in question to permanent positions, after having made a few simple salary adjustments. The Committee, in recommending no hasty action, may well have intended this...
Though he fiddles away most of his time on tour, world-famous Violinist Holger (Leslie Howard) is just a homebody at heart until he meets Anita (Ingrid Bergman), who is giving piano lessons to Holger's eight-year-old daughter (Ann Todd). Holger hears Anita play, falls in love with her. When he goes on tour again, Anita accompanies him, not only on the piano. But when Holger begins to long for home and daughter, Anita, realizing what the score is, runs off to Paris to study. As his daughter dashes across the street to greet homing Holger...
...Malraux's Man's Hope (TIME, Nov. 7). Alvah Bessie's book is not only the second finest; it is an addendum. Malraux's fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part in that retreat and later in the last desperate offensive across...