Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three short hours required by the rule book are deceptive. After a student has showered, dressed, and walked to and from exercise, he has often spent twice that time. Even if some training were necessary for freshmen, as the program's directors argue, "three" has never been proved the magic number for attaining physical fitness. Actually, for the man with a job, the excretes may be more harmful than beneficial if it requires him to make up time lost in afternoon exercise by sleeping less at night. If University officials are concerned about the physical condition of under-par freshmen...
...Basketball rules committee last week widened the foul lane from six to twelve feet and changed the foul shot rule so that the "one and one" rule, which gives a player an extra shot if he makes his first free throw, will apply for the entire 40 minute. Fouls in the last three minutes have been penalized with two foul shots during the past the past two seasons...
Despite his long reign, Nepal's late King had actually ruled over his country for only a few years. For most of his reign he was virtually a prisoner of the powerful Rana nobles, who held despotic power over Nepal as its hereditary Prime Ministers. While the King stayed at home in his palace reading Shelley, the Ranas ran his country with an iron hand, indulging their taste for bizarre ornamentation by filling their 30-odd marble palaces with fancy clocks and comical distorting mirrors imported from Coney Island. In 1950, fired by neighboring India, a revolution at last...
...fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong, abundantly supplied with money and costly gewgaws. With his wife, and children by his first marriage, he lived quietly in a two-storied house, with a garden of pines and papayas. He played mah-jongg with other ex-officers, read newspapers of all political...
...Newton, Mass., was named captain of the varsity lacrosse team at yesterday's practice. All of last year's lacrosse lettermen had to vote by mail for another captain because the captain elected at the end of last year did not return to school this fall and a University rule for all sports requires that last year's lettermen chose this year's captains. The final vote was received yesterday making Lewis' election official...