Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the nation's most influential forces to convince them of a need for war. We believe that if the destroyers and the combat planes which we rush to Britain in the next two months are not enough, we must not tempt Mars by advancing to the fray ourselves. We must fall back on our defenses, which are improving with each new increase in production and each new perfection of technique...
Milton provided the Freshmen with little or no opposition the following day. Before the fray was over the Yardlings had eight counters to their credit, while O'Neill had his third shutout...
Dormitory, Winthrop, Dudley, and Eliot emerged victorious after last night's full state of House hockey matches. In the opening fray, Johnny Paine led his Dormitory team to an 8 to 2 triumph over Leverett by scoring four times in the first period...
...started to argue. Fay swung at him. Fay friends charged, fists flew. A Dubinskyite and Fayster clinched and rolled on the floor. Dubinsky's daughter was thrown to her knees. It was minutes before the battlers were pulled apart. Browne had tactfully vanished at the start of the fray...
...streamlined trains; Ernest T. Trigg, a conservative paint manufacturer; and Rev. John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines of a real-estate war. On one side...