Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guinea pig he used was a single play of the Dartmouth football team. The movements of the backs are given in the black-bordered portion of the diagram below, and it may be noted that their actions in the five variations of the play are identical in each case for the major part of the play...
...gift for the establishment of an endowed professorship in retailing has been given the University, President Conant announced last night...
With scarcely more than a quiet sigh, Canton last week passed under Communist rule. There was no resistance in the city that had given refuge to China's dying Nationalist government...
...Washington luncheon given for him by veterans' groups, Presidential Aide Major General Harry H. Vaughan seemed fully recovered from the Senate's five-percenter inquiry. Boomed Vaughan: "The only two people I have to please are Mr. Truman and Mrs. Vaughan . . . I am considered in many circles to be unethical and I am sure I will continue to be, but I am going to continue to be the way I have been...
...Father Berard Haile (pronounced high-lee) has been at St. Michael's almost since it began. When he came to the mission as a young priest in 1900, it was a small experiment that seemed to have every chance of failure. Beginning in 1539, the Spanish Franciscans had given generously of their labors and their lives (more than 300 were martyred) to convert the Indians-with practically no success. In 1828, the last Spanish Franciscan withdrew. It was not until the century was almost over that American Franciscans decided to take up the work once again. With three monks...