Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upset to label itself a slight threat to Army in the East. Cornell proved once more the folly of Ivy League teams competing outside their own bailiwick. The undefeated Big Red got mauled 55-0 by Syracuse in a game so lopsided that Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder had to send for an old set of jerseys to have enough to mercifully suit up his fifth-stringers...
...Wolfe had graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His father, at that time dying of cancer, thought that any further education would be a waste of money, and flatly refused to pay for his graduate study. His mother, though reluctant to send Tom to a northern school, agreed to loan him the funds, subtracting the money from his share of his father's estate...
Narrow Margin. But the abolitionists railed louder than ever; pretty young Delegate June Hay derided the committee report as a mere excuse for Laborites who send their own children to private schools. Slyly, onetime Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell dug at Hugh Gaitskell and other private-school men among the platform-sitters : "I wish I had gone to one of these schools; there is no saying how far I would have gone...
Next week the U.S. will try to send a rocket around the moon. At the same time or soon after, the Russians may be tempted to outdo the U.S. by hitting the moon with a big rocket. Last week scientists of the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Washington to plead with both to make haste with due care...
...paper, which on the ground turned out to be slaughterhouse dramas." Not until the end of the Flanders campaign did Kiggell visit the corpse-filled swamp where countless thousands of British and German infantrymen had died in the mud. Kiggell burst into tears: "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that...