Word: musters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing in the U.S. Squash Racquets Association Championships at Hartford Saturday, Harvard could muster only a single victory in the individual and team competition. In the individuals, Romer Holleran had trouble starting against former Cornell star Craig Fanning, falling behind 2-0 in games. The Crimson captain rallied to even the match, but then dropped the fifth game...
Conceivably, the Conservatives could muster enough strength to bring down Pearson's minority government and force an election. But while Pearson has lost support, he has not lost so much among Canada's calm, affluent citizens that they are ready to hurry out and vote for Diefenbaker. Many Conservatives think they would lose an election with the old man, and they are openly muttering that he is all that is keeping the Liberals in office...
...poverty." It would offer about $1 billion-mostly in job-creating road construction-to the deeply depressed eleven-state Appalachia region where the unemployment rate has risen to 15%. The Senate approved a bill last year, but the House never got around to it because Democratic leaders could not muster enough votes in the waning hours of the session. Chances are brighter in the 89th, although Albert admits, "We may have some trouble...
...Body's Mistake. One of Dr. Uhr's most important findings was that "immunological memory" usually involves the smaller molecules. The system can remember all through its life how to make them, and how to muster them to repel an invading virus. But why, having once started, does it not keep on manufacturing them rather than wait for a new invasion? Neither Dr. Uhr nor any other immunologist can be certain, but there seems to be a feedback mechanism whereby, once the blood is sated with antibody, it yells "Enough!," and the antibody factory shuts down...
...qualification, Ohio State demanded B.A.s acquired with B-minus or better averages from accredited schools, and the Air Force picked only men who passed muster. One professor finds the students "a shade above those I've had on the main campus." The dropout rate at Minuteman U. is 19% a year, compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status...