Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fadden works a seven-day week during the football season and, since his ministrations are not limited to athletes, his load does not lighten significantly once the season ends: soon the ski injuries will start piling...
Buck insisted that while the Crimson would lighten its schedule in the future, the team would continue in the Ivy League, and not as a doormat...
...pursuer has thrown away his shield for the sake of speed; and his mount, still fresh, bites at the rump of the other. But it is his weapons of offense that the fleeing man has dropped to lighten the load on his horse; the useless shield still hangs by his thigh. And his foundering horse, whose drooped crest, breaking pace and running nostrils show it in extremity, bears out with unmistakable pathos the difference between the fortunes of the riders...
Stanford has also approached several other Eastern colleges seeking a replacement for the Harvard game which Provost Buck cancelled early in February. Buck said then that he was attempting "to lighten a far too heavy schedule...
...releasing his brief statement, Buck said that the game had been cancelled in order to lighten a "far too heavy" schedule. He also said that the date September 30--will remain unfilled, and expressed appreciation for the cooperation of Stanford officials in the matter...