Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much obliged to you for publishing my letter to Col. Wm. J. Bingham, and I have nothing to add or detract from it except to emphasize that there were 34 "H" men available from the 1948 team that defeated Yale and that our material this year was far better than the average. Our 1949 team outweighed every team it played against, including Army...
...cold war. Political tensions since the war are, in the eyes of the Dean's Office, much greater than before the war. The Dean's Office feels that political groups of which it disapproves will use the Harvard name as a shield. Hence the Dean's Office wants to make it much tougher for groups to be chartered or to put out publications...
...debts. The Dean's Office is much more concerned about financially floundering student organizations, and it wants to protect them from the pitfalls of bankruptcy. Protection, however, means a certain amount of control...
After the evolution of ordinary street hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
...approximately 13 years after that, hardly anything was heard about Seltzer's contribution to organized Armageddon. Then, aided by an increase in the number of television-owners, the Roller Derby all of a sudden sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when...