Word: lone
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Bruin Don Cumeron had to break a record to score the lone victory for his team. His time of 2:13.9 in the 230-yard free-style betters a Brown varsity record of 2:14.3. Sandler's time of 1:41 tops a year old varsity mark for the 150-yard medley...
...Pennsylvania, his friends and admirers have organized a "Fighters for MacArthur" group. In California, they go by the name "Americans for MacArthur." New Hampshire has a "MacArthur for President" committee. Texas has launched a "Demand MacArthur" movement which hopes to spread well beyond the Lone Star border. As one of its quietly enthusiastic sponsors, Dallas Printer William S. Henson, explained last week: "We've got a lot of little grass fires going all over the country, and there will be more of them by convention time. We aren't fighting anybody. We are just waiting." What they...
...charges of taking $1,750 in bribes from an Oklahoma grain-elevator company. Yet the committee found that Benit was given a $4,575-a-year job at OPS after being dismissed by CCC. Two other employees, in the Kansas City office, showed "official favoritism" toward Houston Texas' Lone Star Co., awarded it a contract even though its bid was higher than others submitted...
...Annapolis meet represented the varsity's fourth straight win of the season, and its second Eastern Intercollegiate League victory. Dave Hedberg was the lone double winner of the evening, taking both the 50 and 100-yard sprints, the first time this year he has competed in both dash events. Hedberg's time of 23.3 in the 50, with John MacNamara second, was one-tenth of a second from the pool record...
They have ripped Arthur Miller's excellent script from its original setting and placed it practically intact before the cameras. But they could not recreate the stage setting and the atmosphere of the legitimate theatre which are an integral part of Death of a Salesman. A lone figure, small in proportion to the huge frame of the stage, can stand before the audience and deliver an emotional, but long, speech effectively. And often the meaning of this speech depends on the contrast between the size of the character and his back-ground. Death of a Salesman contains speeches which...