Word: nears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising expenses have hit most Ivy League colleges, a CRIMSON poll has shown. With the continually increasing costs of labor and materials, dining hall directors in these colleges all expect increased board charges in the very near future, Carle T. Tucker, director of the Harvard Dining Hall Department, predicted recently...
...Near the close of the first quarter, one of the most spectacular scoring plays of the season took place. Koval faded back, fought off a determined group of swarming Middies, and threw the ball as far as he could down the middle of the field. Forty yards away, Quaker halfback Peter Schantz was outrunning two Navy defenders. He caught up with the football on the 10 and tallied--a 60-yard scoring pass. The Quakers...
...present time, however, for anti-matter," Chamberlain pointed out, "but the discovery will help us a great deal in understanding nuclear structure." Although no important discoveries have been made with the anti-proton in the last three years, he felt confident "important discoveries" would be made in the near future...
...Spain's fighting ships could not get within miles of Dunkirk's beach. Parma had only a few rotting barges to bridge the distance. But as things turned out, the Duke never had his chance to drown because the Armada, intercepted by the British, never got near Dunkirk. This monumental snafu is typical of one of history's most inept naval campaigns...
Areas to be studied are Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's upper peninsula. In these states the transition from small to large-scale farming, the lack of near-by markets for goods, potential competition from mines along the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a dearth of new industrial development have created grave problems...