Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only an amazing save by goalie Tom Bagnoli in the last five seconds of the Dartmouth game enabled the varsity to maintain its present first place standing in the Ivy League. Crimson coach Bruce Munro commented after practice yesterday, "We might be able to get away with this kind of play against Wesleyan, but we certainly won't be able to against Pennsylvania...
...Inconel X, a heat-resisting alloy that keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure in the plane's interior. The pilot, who cannot breathe pure nitrogen, will have a private oxygen atmosphere inside his space suit...
After his retirement Kiphuth plans to proceed with work on three books. He also said he would try to maintain his summer swimming program for those preparing for the Olympics and other international competitions...
...middle-aged but still attractive heroine of this excellent novel by the wife of an Italian diplomat. "Mamma" Cossati is an intimidated, tradition-bound Roman housewife. She is intent on one thing: to maintain a perfect reputation for hard work and for saintly devotion to her family and her gentle husband, an underpaid bank official. Yet her problems cannot be dismissed as resulting merely from poverty and Old World attitudes about a woman's place. When she dreams guiltily of "leaving the dishes in the sink, the laundry unwashed, the beds unmade." or when she tries...
...however. First of all, the university average includes the marks of freshmen, which are very much lower than upperclassmen's. (Fraternities have no freshman members.) And, more important, most frats are very careful not to bid for students with low grades, since any "organized living group" which does not maintain a certain average will be placed on social probation. The fraternities are usually very careful to enforce their own "study hours" rules...