Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fate, coach Bruce Munro said yesterday, hangs largely upon the whims of Gracie. If the expected storms hold off, the small varsity line should be able to work its precision attack to perfection--early-season perfection, at least. But a murky playing field or a driving rain would give the larger Jumbos a definite advantage. Then, too, the weather may become violent enough to postpone the game, as it did last fall...
...limit, principally because a large number of potential English concentrators advised to take the course by members of ithe department swelled the ranks of would-be students. Recognizing that he could not refuse admission to English concentrators without hurting their prospects in the field, Professor Brower was forced to give sophomores concentrating in English preference in admission...
...race--is still going on. It invites your inspection this afternoon and quite possibly tomorrow as well. The Dodgers and Braves played to a dead heat during the regular schedule, and they were still even after five innings yesterday, until L.A. catcher John Roseboro smashed a home run to give the Bums a 3-2 victory...
...taking strong objection to the board's performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector: "The agencies are long on judicial form and short on judicial substance." He advised transferring the CAB's policy-making functions to an executive...
...Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace was Samuel Adams, cousin of John, a dumpy, inquisitive politician who had left his job as Boston tax collector when his accounts were found ?8,000 in arrears. Unlike most of the other colonial leaders, he wanted not merely rectification of parliamentary wrongs but independence...