Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most encouraging result of the Southern expedition was the return of that elusive ingredient, team spirit. Without a real leader, the squad often lacked drive and desire during the winter. This new morale may be transitory, but if not, it would make the money given by the Friends of Harvard Track well spent...
Captain Al Gordon's return to form in the 440 would be heartening for those who watched him struggle through a miserable winter campaign. Trying harder in each race at the unfamiliar 600-yard distance, Gordon actually got worse as the season wore on. But he is a great competitor and a fine runner; he should come back. Art Cahn in the 880 and Jed Fitzgerald in the mile seem ready for some fine efforts...
...trips to town for Good Friday services at the First Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work...
Bandit-beating is not the simple business it once was. In the early days of the slots, the process was called "spooning," and it had nothing whatever to do with June or moon. A spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
...Return to Crucifixions. The pastor believes that the ancient times may not be gone irrevocably. "At any rate," he says, "crucifixions have come into fashion again, and they were always a sign of the ancient days." This suggests that "primitive Christianity may also return," not so much reuniting man with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with...