Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling out income tax guides, the Hobo News, and paperbound books from James M. Cain to Stendhal. Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal angrily reported that their copies were being stolen from in front of their office doors. No New Yorkers were more dismayed by the strike than the numbers-game players: the payoff number is currently derived from the total mutuel take at Maryland's Pimlico race course, a figure that conveniently is carried by the daily press...
...University had also hoped, Whitlock declared, that any new ordinance would "reduce the number of instances in which the University would find it necessary to apply for variances, exceptions and special permits...
...Harvard's academic standards become tougher, the number of admissable--let alone attractive--athletes gets smaller in relation to the rest of the population. When a top "scholar-athlete" is captured by the Big Ten, another Massachusetts college, or even one of the less fussy Ivy League schools, there is that much less material available for a Harvard team. If no other college recruited, or if Harvard's drawing power in small town high schools were as great as it is at Exeter, there would be no problem...
...League must fight off competition from within and without when trying to attract the limited number of bright athletes to its institutions. It is a matter of "meeting competition where it exists." Football, basketball, hockey, and track--in roughly that order--demand hustle and initiative by coaches or alumni or both, if they are to survive in an Ivy League college...
Harris doubted that the University would "pass up the chance to gain $250,000 in loan money through the new program." He pointed out, however, that there were "protests about the loyalty pledge rising from quite a number of college faculties...