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Quarterback Gary Wood will undoubtedly dominate the game and get a head start in his race to pile up the nation's most impressive statistical record. Chances are he will score two or three times himself, and many of his teammates may also wish to try touchdown plays. Cornell in this one, by three touchdowns...
...irresponsible and dangerously partisan." Since the book is fat and heavy, an unsuspecting purchaser might think that it contains a rational evaluation of Kennedy as a politician and political leader. No such thing. Lasky documents some of the President's weaknesses-but he buries them in a trash pile...
...others to imitate. The Italians, for example, steadfastly oppose an American eight-hour work day; they complain that it would give them only an hour or so for lunch instead of the traditional three-hour midday siesta at home and, more important, would cut into the overtime they often pile up by staying at work until 8 or 9 in the evening. When the Italian government tried to institute a day with no siesta break, the employees' union blocked the plan by arguing that it would tear men away from their families...
...long-puzzling feature of lead poisoning is the way the cases always seem to pile up in the hot months, June to September, but hover near the vanishing point at other times. Various researchers have suggested parts of an answer that is now generally accepted, though some details are uncertain...
While Gilbert was shoveling coal in the mid-1920s, U.S. railroads began introducing the first diesel locomotives. Powered by an internal combustion engine, the diesels needed no firebox, no pile of coal-and no fireman. The diesels came onto U.S. railway tracks very gradually, and as late as 1937 fewer than 1% of the nation's locomotives were diesels. In that year the Brotherhood of Firemen foresightedly negotiated a contract with major railroads calling for two-man train crews. Fire or no fire, there was to be a fireman aboard...