Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardlings, who had lost their first two games to Andover and Holy Cross, scored their first touchdown in the second period on a short buck by Art Pappas. They missed the extra point, but soon roared back to get seven more points on a pass from Hardy Cox to end Dick Lionette, and an extra-point kick by Bill Kierstead...
Although it is difficult to attribute last night's lack of activity to any specific cause, the letter from Dartmouth athletic director William J. McCarter to William J. Bingham '16, Director of Harvard Athletics, seems to have been borne out in fact. McCarter wrote Bingham a short while ago that he had instructed his "gestapo" to prevent any demonstrations...
Dune Mauran, who was held to short gains all afternoon, made five yards through the center of the line and on the next play Slug Dolan cut off tackle--out side his right tackle, inside the end--broke to his left when he got into the Dartmouth secondary, and spurted 60 yards behind three blockers. Hugh Edmonds' place-kick for the extra point drifted wide of the uprights...
Although the fund is still short of its goal, Reverend Kellogg reported that the committee has decided to bring its first lecturer to the College sometime this winter...
take the question of aid to Tito. There are a great many short-range, short-sighted arguments for giving aid to Yugoslavia--devilishly attractive arguments, the kind of arguments to which one can so easily say: "150 million Americans and the State Department can't be wrong." I believe they are wrong, wrong because they are thinking too precisely on the event, gazing rapturously at the free without noticing the nature of the forest...