Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unit Friday, with only Metropolitan League matches behind it, Coach Barnaby's squad had been unable to win. However, the trip to the northland may have been the turning point for the team, for it achieved decisive wins over Dartmouth, McGill, and the Montreal Squash and Badminton Club...
Resort Trouble. Like all other hotel-men, Conrad Hilton is currently riding the crest of the wave. In most hotels, the trick is still to find a room and Hilton is confident that business will remain good for at least five years. Because of increased efficiency, the break-even point of Hilton hotels is now down to about 60% to 75% of capacity, as against a national average of 80%. For the first ten months of 1949, their operating profit totaled $6,886,108, slightly higher than last year...
...husbands and wives of the nation who have been stuck by the thorns of domestic irritation. Confident Author Barnes, who blandly assumes that White Collar will go over 500,000, thinks that Home ought to do just as well. Hopeful, but aware that the hottest fads have a saturation point, Publishers Doubleday have ordered a mere...
John Rockwell was again high scorer for the varsity with 25 points, but he was handcuffed by a tight Navy defense in the first half. The Middies concentrated on close man-to-man guarding and their passing was fast and accurate they scored effectively from the outside. Two minutes from the start of the game they had picked up a seven point lead...
...second half, the varsity began to cut through the Navy defense, and at the time led the visitors 65 to 64. During the last 80 seconds, Shepard's squad picked up the ball at join-court three times with one-point deficits, and lost the ball three times on fouls-one a charging call on Rockwell which was loudly disputed by the gallery...