Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to say who the losing pitcher should be, since the Crimson scored in every inning except the first, nor was it behind after the top of the second. Technically, defeat would go to clean-up batting, utility fielding, Mike Baldovski, who started the game...
...Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
...every fortnight, there are already 470 companies, which poured out products at the rate of $1 billion last year. Of them all, probably the fastest growing is Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., which is a bare three years, seven months old. When it was started in 1953, Ramo-Wooldridge had nothing except the brains of its brilliant founders. President Dean E. Wooldridge and Executive Vice President Simon Ramo. The company now has the vital task of running the technical end of the U.S. Air Force ballistics missile program, and its sales this year will hit $50 million...
Brains for Survival. Nowhere is the age of electronics more advanced than in the U.S. armed forces, currently the industry's biggest and most demanding customer. The electronics defense budget for the current year is $3 billion, more than any other single item except aircraft. The U.S. military establishment is rapidly becoming one vast electronics system, whose probing antennas and twirling radar reflectors are so sensitive that an upended card table floating off the Florida Keys was recently reported by a rookie radarman as "four unidentified submarines." Virtually every modern weapon depends upon electronics in some...
...race followed the same pattern as the varsity race, except that Syracuse's final beat of 38 was just too much for the Crimson oarsmen. The Orange eight won by a half length and was going away at the finish