Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Nebraska student council demanded that Nebraska quit the Big Six athletic conference unless the rule prohibiting Negroes from participating in athletic events is revoked...
Vainglorious Lout. Up & down the land from a thousand wagons and soapboxes her rich voice called for Home Rule. "Thousands who come to see this new wonder, a beautiful woman who makes speeches," wrote Yeats, "remain to listen with delight. . . . The papers of Russia, France, Germany and even Egypt quote her speeches, and the tale of Irish wrongs has found its way hither and thither...
Tall, talkative Albert Hibbs, a graduate student in mathematics at Chicago, had devised the system on a bet with Medical Student Roy Walford. They took a term off from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...
...rule of no play against Yale, no letter, can be circumvented only if the coach, the Undergraduate Athletic Committee, H.A.A. officials, and the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports agree that a man should get an "H." This does not correct more than isolated injustices, for these groups agree about as often as the U.N. Security Council...
...were definitely promised by the committee that they could enter the College immediately at the termination of their service careers are the only exceptions to the rule...