Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over the past five decades, the Club's purpose has remained broad, except, says President David C. D'Costa '60, "the group is no longer much interested in flying balloons or manufacturing airplanes." At present the group flies a couple of two-seaters: a newly acquired Luscombe 8F, and the Cessna 120 rented fulltime "at highly favorable rates...
Varsity captain Keyes consistently ruined Williams' offensive plans. The Eph goalie, Bob Adams, periodically admonished his teammates to "get past the big guy if you have to crawl over him," but Keyes stopped everything. Early in the third quarter he came staggering out of a collision near the Crimson goal, holding both hands to his head and obviously badly dazed. Nevertheless, he stayed in the game...
...Labour decline was also assisted by a timely and needed Liberal revival. Although the Liberals secured only six seats, as in each of the past two contests, they ran twice as many candidates as in 1955 and received over twice as many votes. Many of these were clearly protest votes, largely drawn from old Laborites and new voters. Most Liberal platforms were broad statements of interest in the "little man" and appeals for the liberalization of trade...
...Communists spent well over $100 million this past summer in their global attempt to create, and win, a new social class of "Youth." The World Youth Festival did not succeed in this, however, for as a propaganda instrument it was blunted by the independent efforts of Western student groups, and in particular by American participants working within the Festival. But the Soviet did not fail with all of the 20,000 "youth" who arrived in Vienna for 10 days of rallies, cultural events, slogans, and seminars...
...past, one of the problems has been that two experimenters doing the same thing have obtained different results. Dr. Orne feels this can be explained by the fact that the experimenter conveys to the subject by means of subtle clues in the experiment (the demand characteristics) what he expects the subject to do. Since subjects want to cooperate, they are sensitive to these cues and will perform in such a way as to confirm the experimenter's expectations...