Word: run
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going into Saturday's match, Harvard had run off 24 consecutive victories against Penn, including a pair of 5-4 squeakers in their previous two encounters...
...Light Company -- billed as "professional theatre of political controversy and contemporary humor" --would have completed the sixth week of its run tonight. For a month it had been living a hand-to-mouth existence. The backers having with-drawn further financing, Leven had hoped to keep The Light Company alive with his own funds and what-ever money came across the box-office window. Advertising had to be cancelled, and, consequently, audiences had been small. At the same time, the cast and director worked on an entirely new show in order to redeem themselves to the critics, who, along with...
...Esso Pappas. The only man in the world who has his name right next to Esso's title-on stationery and at gas stations across Greece-is Tom Pappas. Esso Pappas forms the major part of a $190 million complex that also includes a $15 million petrochemical plant run by Ethyl Corp., a fertilizer plant and a steel mill in which Republic Steel has a 15% share. Altogether, there are seven companies, which last year had $111 million in sales. Pappas is chairman of three of the seven, but probably the most lucrative part of all is his contract...
...over an 82-year history, its guiding Interstate Commerce Act has become clotted with 200 amendments that run for 425 pages. Johnson Administration economists, testifying in Senate hearings last summer, argued that the ICC was fated to be "a dead hand on industry" and ought to be abolished. Another criticism came last month from the Department of Transportation, which, in a study of rail-merger patterns, scolded the commission for paying scant attention to broad economic questions and for rubber-stamping in "a rather random manner" individual mergers as they come along...
...allow the premise that most of us are really interested in getting a decent education, and that we will, in the long run, be fairly prudent in doing so, it seems likely that we will take out exams on schedule. Most of use realize the disadvantages of postponing an exam and will be reluctant to do so unless it is truly necessary. For the rest, the experience of two make-ups in April will be enough to bring those disadvantages home...