Word: eleventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quonset huts seem to be the only solution to a crisis that has been allowed to reach its eleventh hour. The University has contracted for forty of these structures. If the administration plans to use this as a model for other developments, forty are sufficient. But if the University means to drop the job there, it will be a clear demonstration that Harvard is still economizing as usual while colleges with much smaller endowments rally to meet this crisis in education. No less than ten times that number of emergency units, placed on Soldiers Field, along the River...
...peoples of the democracies, and weak nations (which eventually would have to choose sides if the titans should split) could find hope in one thought: that however gruff and bluff nations may act in a serious dispute, they can often reach a settlement at the eleventh hour when they have tested each other's intentions. But it was about quarter to eleven...
...apologetics. On the other hand, he is no mere dialectician of theology: his plain & fancy thinking is as closely welded to the problems of this world's politics as Walter Lippmann's. Last week he once again showed his hand, calluses and all, in his eleventh book, Discerning the Signs of the Times (Scribner...
...eleventh hole (Dogwood), Jones hooked into deep trouble. Kibitzer Walter Hagen, along for the walk, advised Bobby: "Take your time at the top of your swing, as you did when you wrecked me and Gene Sarazen. . . . Get lazy again." Jones did, and played the last seven holes in even par. Next day, Bobby edged Byron one stroke with a 72-his best competitive round in a dozen years. But his final score for 72 holes: 302. He finished in 32nd place...
Gray's choice as the eleventh man on the Eastern team was revealed early this week, but subsequent to the announcement transportation difficulties arose which have prevented him from being flown to practice is New York...