Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some cases entering a contest is not hard. The Bowdoin Prizes with $500 for first place calls for essays of not over 10,000 words on "any subject suitable for treatment in literary form." Students often hand in carbon copies of their honors theses for consideration...
...dire alternatives for K-F if the money had been refused. Said he: K-F might have had to shut down, resulting in heavy unemployment. As it was, K-F last week had to lay off 5,000 workers anyway, while it tried to sell cars on hand. But Hise hoped that that was just a temporary situation and that "the loans will be repaid from earnings...
...heroic proportions. So have most of his biographers. Lacking anything sounder than a dubious mixture of octogenarians gossip and Missouri legend on which to base their judgments, they have served up a dauntless, do-gooding 19th Century Robin Hood who carried the honor of the Old South in one hand and a parcel for the poor in the other. Few in the ballad audience wanted it otherwise. If the storybook Jesse was short on flesh and blood, at least he satisfied a secret, belly-warming yen for bygone Wild West heroism...
Randall stated that he did not feel that the riot was too serious, and that it could have been a good deal worse. "The reason it didn't get more out of hand," he said, "was that the Harvard boys we spoke to were pretty cooperative. I don't feel, however, that the Princeton students cooperated at all well...
Chandler, the visitor's quarterback, mixed up the inside and outside plays cleverly, and this also gave the Crimson a bad time. The only way to really stop the wide plays was to break into the backfield before the hand off. But, by crashing to stop the play before it started, the line was left open for a delayed buck or a short pass...