Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard-Yale game, the day when the outcome of months of con-centrated, preparation will be decided in 60 minutes of controlled warfare. Everyone from a steelstands ticket holder to the 22 starting players are at a high nervous tension, a tension which will map with the closing whistle...
...California's Coach Stub Allison sat on the sidelines gloomily nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
...Union, and Phillips Brooks House, as well as his adviser and proctor, to which he can apply for personal aid. And he needs all of these, for at last night's meeting Dean Leighton spoke of a Freshman, who a few years ago, reported to the Hygiene department a nervous wreck after his hour exams. He shivered and shook, but he was finally brought back to normal and then learned he had received two A's and two B's as his marks...
...years, overcrowded Haitians have been slipping over the border, squatting on Dominican land. Fortnight ago the border villages blazed with fire and the banging of musketry. When the smoke cleared, over 300 were dead on Dominican soil, mostly Haitian squatters, their wives and children. Nervous authorities in both countries feared reprisals...
Last week it was Texas school officials' turn to be nervous. While some agents went home to rest and others moved on to the next big State adoptions in Oklahoma in December, in Austin the Texas House of Representatives voted additional funds to a House committee which, after finishing the first audit ever made of the State education department, will soon begin an investigation of textbook adoptions...