Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineups of his four boats all spring, Coolidge left intact the same combinations since last Monday. On that day the boat stroked by Hoffman, designed as the varsity, beat Goodman's J.V.'s by a full length. But Wednesday Goodman's boat trounced the varsity by a length of open water, or two boat-lengths in all. Then Thursday it repeated the performance, although winning by only a length, and so earned the right to race the varsity shell against Cornell...
...Crimson track team will open its spring campaign against Army's vaunted Cadets today at West Point. Army is deep and strong in almost every event, and the thin varsity squad will need an all-out effort and plenty of luck...
...frontiers" abroad were subjected to a peaceful economic expansions, an "anti-colonial commercial imperialism." To this was added--especially under Wilson and the two Roosevelts--a sense of moral mission, an "imperialism of idealism." The result was a policy of the Open Door, freedom and even protection for American business interests abroad. And the foreign "frontier" was wastefully ravaged much as the resources of the American West were depleted before conservation. American economic power was relied upon to "make the world safe for democracy" (safe, Williams says, for America...
Williams' analysis applies quite neat-nations. In respect to Russian-American affairs, however, his thesis seems to break down. He attributes the responsibility for the deterioration of East-West relations more to the American Open Door policy than to Soviet machinations and seriously underestimates Russian expansive tendencies. It is at best only half-true to accuse American leaders of attempting to "force the Soviet Union to accept America's traditional conception of itself and the world. And to say that "in every case but one, Russia retreated from these efforts [at territorial aggrandizement] in the face of America's vigorous...
Coach Bruce Munro plans to alternate two lines at midfield. On one line will be Dick Morgan, Dick Parks and Manuel Cabral, while John Gould, Dave Birch, and Tadgh Sweeney will compose the other unit. Bron Thayer, Ed Tarlov, and Lanny Keyes will open the game at midfield, and Chris Stone will guard the nets...