Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's climax against the Eli yearlings Saturday, the Yardlings picked a poor time for their low point of the season. During the game the freshmen committed four very costly errors that let seven runs score. Yale took advantage of these gift runs and held fast behind pitcher Bob Carpenter to win, 13 to 6, over the Yardlings who were also not up to their usual hitting strength...
...high sales to the U.S. In March, U.S. imports reached an alltime high of $1,300,900,000, or 21% above a year earlier. Exports of $1,441,000 were 6% below last year at the same time. The once huge gap between exports and imports has narrowed so fast that it is now running at an annual rate of $1.1 billion, against as much as $6 billion in many postwar years. With U.S. foreign aid and U.S. private investment abroad still high, the U.S. has a $3.3-billion-a-year deficit in payments...
...this spring, it first split the old shares, selling at around $500, so that the price to the public was $44.50 a share. Even conservative underwriters think there is a time for companies to split. Says Sumner Emerson, partner of Morgan Stanley & Co.: "A company that is going ahead fast and thinks it is going to have to sell more stock to finance its growth should probably split when its shares go to a high price...
...Father Tom, not yet 50, was wearing down fast, suffering nervous breakdowns, getting entangled in exhausting quarrels with his superiors about minutiae. In 1911 he collapsed, was put into one sanitarium after another, was treated as insane. "Repeated confessions but no peace," he wrote in 1913. "No hope whatever of eternal salvation. Still my vows press on me and I will continue to obey blindly...
Throughout the game Harvard's Langy Kavaliku and Charlie Rowe, exceptionally fast wings, were unable to get the ball on many three quarter movements, and the attack thus lost much of its power. One of the times Rowe did have the ball, he raced 30 yards around the Nomad secondary, only to be tackled at the goal line. Many of the 400 spectators--and the Crimson team--thought Rowe had scored, but the ball was brought out for a scrum...