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...focus now "is to gather basic knowledge of where there might be a like-lihood of earthquakes, but also to have enough instruments deployed so that the exact nature and extent of an earthquake, once it happens, can be accurately assessed," he says...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Seismology Device Yields More Accuracy | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

...flyer also mentioned the like lihood that a rebate would not be offered this year...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Few Students Collect Coop Textbook Rebate | 11/8/1994 | See Source »

...stock-car drivers, very few of whom carried N.A.A.C.P. membership cards in their wal lets. The worst Robinson could expect from his prejudiced competitors was something like a spike wound; the men Scott was running against had, at every race, the means to kill him and in all like lihood get away with it. Moreover, as a black he could not hope to attract well-heeled sponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vroomy Movie | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...individual players, Yale has a line from tackle to tackle that has shown its ability to stand severe hammering by its oponents. Thus the like lihood of Yale's being scored upon by the straight line-bucking game is very remote. For ends Yale has two stars in Kilpairick and Bomeisler, who have been handicapped by injuries, but who are in shape for the Harvard game. At quarterback Yale is weak. Strout, Merritt and Corey are not capable of filling Howe's place, and the latter has returned to his old position, still playing as much as possible the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Yale Season | 11/19/1910 | See Source »

Unless some immediate action is taken to arrange more games, there is lite like lihood of the class base-ball championship being settled at all this year. The management of the class-games has been extremely bad, and affairs have now fallen into such a rut that it will be a difficult task to straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/13/1888 | See Source »

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