Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half, the varsity also scored a second touchdown. But Ravenel failed by a yard to make the conversion on a quarterback sneak. And from here on, the Princeton defense held firm....CRIMSONDale B. FrumanPrinceton tailback HUGH SCOTT hurdles blockers and would-be tacklers, including Harvard's right guard HAL ANDERSON (72) in Saturday's game. Scott scored the Tigers' first touchdown early in the first period and gained 75 yards in 15 carries. In the first game of the Big Three round robin, Princeton beat Harvard by a second period conversion...
...while Democrats were running strong for House seats in other sections of the U.S., a handful of embattled Republicans in the South held firm. Five G.O.P. Southern Congressmen retained their seats, notably among them Dallas' Bruce Alger, who held off the strong challenge of Democrat Barefoot Sanders...
...ordinary run of things, the members of the North Atlantic Alliance, like partners in a family firm, tend to take their union for granted. But last week, as December's annual meeting of NATO's Ministerial Council drew near, there was an outburst of hooting, hollering and name calling. France's Charles de Gaulle served notice that he was discontented with NATO's political structure. Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, until last month NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was, as usual, chipperly dissatisfied with almost everybody...
...spin off theater and radio operations in new company. Management was up against antitrust order to separate film and theater business by August 1959, has won fight against minority group of directors who want to spin off troubled M-G-M filmmaker. M-G-M will stay in parent firm...
Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that the ideal drama should be grounded on a plot so firm that, "even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents; which is just the effect that the mere recital of the story in Oedipus would have on one." The highly stylized production of Sophocles' masterpiece now playing at the Brattle is sure to be the subject of heated controversy in many a Hum 5 section and coffee house; but the iron anatomy remains which no mode...