Word: reclaiming
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...Crimson victory over the Blue or a Yale victory over Harvard reclaims the worst of seasons for either team. The Crimson and Blue soccer teams will be out to reclaim their most mediocre seasons in the recent past today when they clash in a 2 p.m. game at New Haven...
...Kansas started a plan to re-employ teachers who had quit or retired, in 1951 succeeded in recruiting 400. Montgomery County, Md. has a special twelve-week refresher course in education for the same purpose, has so far been able to reclaim between 50 and 87 good teachers a year...
...Burma project is no more ambitious than one the partners are already developing in Iraq. On the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, they are engineering a $555 million project to reclaim the Tigris-Euphrates valley from its encrusted alkalis, make it bloom with crops enough to feed the entire population of 5,000,000. Their ditches are following the course of those put down by another Army engineer, Alexander the Great. "He picked so well," says Near East Boss Abbett, "we found we could not improve...
...Democracy was to be the 50-mile-long, 200-ft.-wide Danube-Black Sea Canal, a project long dreamed of by Russian czars, British promoters and Bucharest businessmen. It would cut 170 miles off the route, allow deep-draught Red vessels to sail into Europe's heart, and reclaim by irrigation the vast, poor Dobruja plain through which it flowed...
...banished behind the Iron Curtain is nothing less than preposterous . . . There is nothing 'subversive' whatever about his metropolitan daily newspaper cartooning, which now dates back more than 16 years. Assume that he realized his error and . . . sincerely changed his affiliation . . . Should the U.S. then not want to reclaim him as it has . . . others who saw their mistake...