Word: set
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...set itself for the clash of two football titans-Notre Dame v. Tulane. From his mourners' bench at South Bend, Ind., Coach Frank Leahy cried, "We'll be outweighed for the first time in two years." On the Tulane campus in New Orleans, where Coach Henry Frnka (pronounced franka) had been holding secret practice for weeks, there was impressive silence...
...ship. When the whales arrived, he suggests, the current could be intensified, stunning them temporarily. Then the whalers or whale inspectors could measure each leviathan, noting its sex and its depth of blubber. Large, fat males could be hauled aboard. The young, the thin and the female could be set free with the crew's apologies...
...will build or renovate 7,122 miles of roads, buying bulldozers, dump trucks, motor graders and portable rock crushers. Later, she will be in the market for other communications equipment, 18 diesel locomotives, 30 passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network of small plants...
Under a quota agreement with the Department of Agriculture, a market price of $130 a ton was set on 147,000 tons of raisin grapes. To the same buyers, the growers will be permitted to sell another 63,000 tons if they can be absorbed at close to $130 a ton. The Government will have to pay for the surplus-estimated at 100,000 tons-at a top of $80 a ton, the bulk of which will probably go for pig-feed at $30 or less a ton. The Department knows that the cure is to rip up the excess...
...brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...