Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family of five found New England to their liking; Yovicsin wanted to meet the challenge of fielding a good team under the Ivy League rules. With this settled, the Yovicsin family took up residence in Framingham, and Yovicsin himself undertook the task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity...
...downtown San Francisco and all along the Bohemian strip known as North Beach, other poets and hipsters were gigging together to the raucous applause of the city's beard-and-sandal set. The poetry was usually poor and the jazz was worse, but nobody seemed to care. Record business was being done by dim little jazz spots such as the Sail'N and the Black Hawk-the Taj Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with...
...price rises; the real value of goods and services produced showed no increase. In October industrial production was down 2 points to 142 on the Federal Reserve Board's index, compared to the boom peak of 147. Though overall employment in October increased slightly to a monthly record of 66 million-and unemployment decreased to 2,500,000-the bulk of the gain was in farm workers; nonfarm workers increased by only 12,000 v. a 317,000 gain in October...
...year. Though plant expansion may drop as much as 7% in 1958, the new homes, coupled with big programs for new schools, highways, dams and bridges, are expected by F. W. Dodge Corp., the building industry's top experts, to nudge overall construction beyond $48 billion to another record next year. As for retail sales, store owners, who expected record Thanksgiving and Christmas business, have shaved their estimates. Sales last month dropped 2%, and though the year-long totals are still a little ahead of 1956, many retailers say frankly that the recession talk is keeping customers away...
...Massachusetts squad compiled a 13-11 record last season and followed Rhode Island and Connecticut in Yankee Conference standings. Tonight's contest will be the team's first encounter with an Ivy League opponent in several years. The Crimson will be seeking to better last year's 19-9 record, the first successful season in decades...