Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evenings, Slater and Britten cycled to the local pub to drink beer and play darts. Says Mrs. Slater: "I had to make a rule they should speak to me at mealtimes...
Hank Iba insists that "firewagon basketball is only for a crew of firemen." He keeps hammering "ball control" into his players until they dream about it. Iba's first rule: "Never shoot unless you have the percentages with you that the shot will be good." There is only one ball in a basketball game, he likes to say, and as long as you have it the other team can't score...
...class of high-school seniors in Los Angeles took a pledge to give the Golden Rule a ten-day trial at home. Their families were not to know anything about it. When the ten days were up, the Golden Rulers reported their triumphs...
...miles per second, more than one-eighth the speed of light. They have glimpsed nebulae twice as far away. If the nebulae continue, on & on into space, they will eventually exceed the relativistic speed limit. Therefore, argue the critics, something is wrong with the speed-distance rule...
...clothing and toys, obstetricians and hospitals are immediately affected. Actually, the effects of a population bulge . . . will spread to every corner of the economy. One important aspect is the food situation. An era of food scarcity, such as now exists, has been the exception rather than the rule in our history. The population bulge may remove the edge from the problem of farm surpluses...