Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times it seemed that only a miracle could save Amherst from defeat, but the miracle always materialized. Crimson lineman Larry Ekpebu had two on-target shots knocked down late in the game, neither of them by the Amherst goalie. As time was running out in the third quarter, Ekpebu, playing wing, sent a hard cross toward the Lord Jeff nets. The ball hit defender Walter Barnette and seemed to be headed straight for the goal, but it ticked the post just hard enough to be deflected safely away...
RAIL MERGER between Erie and Lackawanna was approved by stockholders, needs only ICC's O.K., which is expected. Merger will save $13 million a year on the two roads' 3,200-mile system between Hoboken, N.J. and Chicago...
...reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition among sanatoria entrepreneurs, who often measure their profit margins by the pennies they save in the kitchen. Seen as an expose of the tuberculosis racket, The Rack would be notable as a muckraking novel alone...
Wilcox said that these reversions to freshman status "might be the thing that can save the program" from one of its greatest difficulties: uncritical acceptance by students who regard admission into sophomore status as an "intellectual merit badge...
...product of U.S. space technology: a small, sophisticated bird strained to the utmost to achieve its purpose. The thrust of its first-stage rocket was only 27,000 Ibs. (v. Lunik's estimated 800,000 Ibs.), and everything in the upper stages had to be meticulously miniaturized to save tiny bits of weight. Its intricately instrumented satellite will send down valuable data from space, perhaps more than the Russians get with their comparative giants, but the U.S. will not match the Russian achievements in bulk or accuracy until a new generation of bigger rockets reaches the flying stage...