Word: looming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen rallying for the tying runs in the last stanza. However, Brown ended the Yardlings "streak" on Monday with a 4-2 win and a return engagement with B.U. plus games with the Freshmen's traditional prep school rivals--Andover and Exeter--Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and the Yale finale loom big on the Yardling schedule. Berg's charges must improve if they are to cope with these opponents and finish their season on May 15 with a respectable record...
Quite a few of Axelrod's letters begin "You're the kind of guy I want to work for," and are from experienced weavers, loom-fixers, fashion designers, buyers, superintendents, salesmen, workers from nearby mills, from all over New England, and from Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New York, California, Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Others are from novices who want to enroll in Axelrod's school in textile technique...
...forks; lamps, an inkwell, glasses, clay pipes, tobacco ash; in a word, it is the most indescribable muddle. . . . One's eyes are so blinded by coal and tobacco smoke that it is like walking around in a cave until one becomes accustomed to it and objects begin to loom up through the fog. . . . Sitting down is a dangerous business. One of the chairs has only three legs; and the children are playing at cooking on another one which happens to be whole, and which they offer to the guest; so if you sit down it is at the risk...
With a record of eight wins and three defeats put away, the Jayvees are set on writing off Burdett as one more victory to their credit before the heavy end of the season comes up. Dartmouth, Yale and a loudly-publicized fracas with the Crimson Freshmen loom big to the insecurely lined-up Jayvees...
Kopp's quintet is out to stretch its seven and three record. Dartmouth, Yale, and a much heralded skirmish with the Crimson Freshmen loom close on the schedule, and the Jayvees look to Suffolk as a test of their newly acquired top-condition...