Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lest anyone get the wrong impression about the final outcome, one of the finest goal line stands in recent years prevented the Bruins from scoring and saved Jordan from a great deal of discomfiture and angry telegrams. There are still those who will question, whether Ev Pearson carried over on the last down. But they are the people who sat on the Brown side of the field...
...been said that these scandals should have been hushed, lest they impair the football community's morale for the Yale game. The real danger lies in secrecy, for in secrecy commercialized attitudes and practices could persist and grow into bigger, more damaging scandals. We believe the football community is true enough to its traditions to cleanse itself of these attitudes and practices without any effect on its morale. It needs only a pressure from the Administration and the other students to do so quickly. There can be no sanction to any student making a profit out of Harvard football...
...testimony of the witness to find out about someone with whom he has been associated and whom he may be protecting under the pretext that he is protecting himself. An attorney general with the power that Brownell wants would have to choose carefully between suspected conspirators, lest big ones get away by testifying under immunity while less guilty associates are trapped by the testimony of the more guilty. But this task is not impossible. Said Brownell: "Almost every heinous crime on the law books, committed by individuals or by groups, remains uncovered because of the privilege against self-incrimination...
...before the bicentennial of 1836, President Josiah Quincy came upon a rough sketch of college arms: Veritas and the three volumes. The last of the volumes in the original drawing was not opened like the first two, but was half-closed with the inscription on its back binding. Apprehensive lest such a placement be interpreted as a critique of education, Quincy revised the scal so that each book was spread open...
...Compare. When the laboratory people have finally perfected a new product, P. & G.'s marketing operation begins with all the precision of an amphibious landing. A staff of 125 P. & G. girls (not too pretty, lest they attract too many marriage proposals; not too homely, lest they jump at the first offer) travels all over the U.S., talking to half a million women a year, handing out new products for housewives to "use and compare." Though P. & G. has a long list of product names already patented aad ready for use, its ad agencies often run contests...