Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's best scoring opportunity of the half came early in the second quarter. Through several good ground gains by halfback Rick Szaro, the Crimson moved the ball to the Holy Cross 5. But the drive ended here, as the Holy Cross defense held firm...
...firm also enclosed with its opinion some copies of the appropriate statutes in Massachusetts law, falling under the "Innkeeper" and "Lewdness" sections...
...furniture to build a fire. One weekend they ended up with nothing in the house to eat except chocolate and marshmallows. Bud figured that promotion, transportation and the cost of musical instruments had put him $100,000 in debt. Just before panic set in, a New York talent management firm lined them up with MGM Records. Now their first single, The Rain, the Park and Other Things, has passed No. 50 on the charts and is climbing; their first album is out, and MGM is blitzing the music industry with an unprecedented $250,000 promotion campaign on them...
...best year in the firm's history," agrees Managing Partner Charles Moran of the Manhattanbased brokerage house of Francis I. du Pont & Co., one of the four who have overcome the general passion for secrecy. Last year Du Pont's profits climbed 19½% to $4,340,152, while its revenues rose 12% to $70,637,738. That may sound like a bundle, but it actually amounted to a mere 6.1% profit ratio, well below the amount of revenue that most industrial companies keep after taxes. Still, it was a considerably better performance than that of the typical...
...Between Maule and Amazon, Toynbee writes briefly about his most recent travels in Latin America and saves for his last page a firm course of treatment for that troubled continent: "My first step would be to dump all the statues of San Martin in the Atlantic, all the statues of O'Higgins in the Pacific, and all the statues of Bolivar in the Caribbean, and I would forbid their replacement, under pain of death...