Word: moves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every other arena, and even made its mark on rules of the game. When public indignation over football's "roughness" forced President Theodore Roosevelt to institute a new set of rules in 1906, one of the proposed changes was to make fields a full 40 yards wider. This move would have changed the whole character of football, turning it into a Rugby-type game, with more lateral passing and sideways running. Harvard protested, however, that such an innovation would outdate its six-year-old Stadium, and the rule-making body decided to institute the forward pass instead of the wider...
...those who accepted advanced standing, only ten elected to reside in the Houses. Several of them spent last year abroad as exchange students, and, therefore, wanted to move right into the upperclass living quarters...
Unfortunately, the show has many distressing disappointments. Calder, the grand Yankee sculptor whose works have for so long been characterized by their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...
Today, the election officials will stamp all the ballots, making the first count official. Afterwards, they will start on the surplus votes, them move to eliminate the lowest candidates until only nine councillors remain. This is done by transferring second-choice votes to the basic first-place count tabulated yesterday, and it will be at least a week before the final results are complete...
...time, and wonder what on earth de Gaulle proposes to do with a stockpile of one (or even two or three) atomic bomb. They wonder too why de Gaulle insisted on controlling the use of the American nuclear weapons based in France, thus forcing the NATO air bases to move to West Germany...