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Word: much (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much of the responsibility for the constitution's success rests on freshmen proctors. In the four weeks allowed for pre-election get-acquainted meetings in Yard entries, they must introduce an average of 70 men to the system and to each other, then run the election. They have already agreed on method, among themselves, but the presence of many proctors appointed this year and the charter's newness will make success harder to attain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Challenge to '53 | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...this is the only Ivy League school at which debating is not a University sponsored (financed) activity. The Administration has traditionally held the attitude that it is best for students to be left alone in their extra-curricular affairs and to solve their own administrative and financial problems as much as possible. In most cases, this policy has worked wonderfully well, but it is becoming clear that there are some fields in which financial independence does not operate to the University's best interests. The Dean's office is aware of the problem in debating and has used its discretionary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters' Argument | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...coaching staff's initial combination was adequate enough. It defeated Amherst by three touchdowns in Columbia's opener at Baker Field last Saturday. However, the brave Lord Jeff eleven hardly tested the Lions' gridiron savvy. It didn't put up much of a defense and it was no great shakes on offense...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Green Lion Eleven Is Soph-Studded | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

There will undoubtedly be much sniveling in the eminently fair Boston press today to the effect that the game should have been called in about the third inning. In this I cannot concur. Once the three umpires had decided that the weather was not bad enough to call the second game, they had no reason to call it after it got under way, and the Braves found themselves eight runs behind...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...pitcher had even picked up the ball. On the field Captain Reese seized the ball at the conclusion of each play and presented it immediately to pitcher Newcombe, depriving the Dodger infielders of those happy interludes of flinging the ball at each other's heads which they enjoy so much...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

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