Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Past performances do not indicate that the jayvee football team will add another win to its one-and-six record this afternoon, when the Elis bring a fast backfield and a fair line onto the junior varsity field...
...World War II veterans' bonus was irresistible. Montana, Oregon and West Virginia voted themselves onto the list of 18 states which already have authorized such jackpots. Veterans in Oklahoma spearheaded a decisive vote in another direction-against a referendum urging world federalism...
Jackson Pollock's abstractions (TIME, Dec. i, 1947 et seq.) stump experts as well as laymen. Laymen wonder what to look for in the labyrinths which Pollock achieves by dripping paint onto canvases laid flat on the floor; experts wonder what on earth to say about the artist. One advance-guard U.S. critic has gone so far as to call him the "most powerful painter in America." Another, more cautious, reported that Pollock "has carried the irrational quality of picture-making to one extremity" (meaning, presumably, his foot). The Museum of Modern Art's earnest Alfred Barf...
...September, a flood of dinkless frosh swept into Princeton's Commons, in direct violation of an old Nassan tradition. Sophomores rallied round the supper table, linked arms, and shouted "No Dinks, No Dinner!" One freshman hit his head against a Gothic wall, but the fight reeled its way onto the steps of Nassau Hall, where the sophomores overwhelmed the freshmen. The Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated for injuries. Other class spirit activities described by the Princetonian this fall included the shaving of the heads of five freshmen, a series of thefts involving a hired airplane...
This afternoon the squad from St. Anthony's was even larger than usual. As it raced onto the field, we moved to meet it. Then, one of its members, a small wiry boy with wild hair and a field jacket which was much too large, detached himself from the crowd and grabbed me by the front of my sweater...