Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vivid demonstration of its unsettled situation, the varsity dropped a scrimmage to the Providence Friars, 84 to 54, last Saturday. Of course, the Friars, led by the meteoric Johnny Egan, were ninth in the nation in pre-season ratings, but the 30-point margin was still ominous. Two bright lights for the Crimson, however, were Loser and Cuff...
...steel industry's ingot output last week hit a surprising total of 78.9% of capacity, or 2,233,000 tons. This was nearly 20% better than anticipated and close to the 2,252,000-ton output in the last pre-strike week. As the glowing ingots moved from soaking pit to rolling mill and out to customers, the glow spread through the U.S. economy...
...doesn't seem possible now," Owen stated, "to move in any significant number of graduates." Last spring, the Masters had hoped to re-institute the pre-war plan of providing rooms for these students, but with pressures of deconversion, increased enrollment, and the need for tutor's offices, the plan has been dropped in effect...
...approach towards campaigning. Throughout his stand on such varied issues as exchanges with Russia and resumption of atomic tests runs a more than natural concern with shaping his position to fit public opinion. And behind them all lurks the strong suspicion that if Nixon had not pre-empted the opposite views Rockefeller would have made them...
...spectators are an extremely knowledgeable and convivial lot. Soccer at the pre-college level is confined almost entirely to the Eastern prep schools, and most rosters are studded with athletes from Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and the rest. Thus, a soccer crowd is likely to consist of people who share this "preppy" orientation. Also, since soccer fans, once committed, are passionately loyal to the game, those in attendance usually understand every rule and nuance. Programs were a luxury the team could not afford this year, but, after the season's first encounter, everyone was thoroughly acquainted with the lineup...