Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Between. The game of football has never been quite the same since-a good thing, too, because it might otherwise not even exist today. Old-fashioned "pig pile" football was a brutal way to spend an afternoon: the casualty toll for the 1905 season alone was 18 deaths and 149 serious injuries, and President Theodore Roosevelt talked about abolishing the sport. The forward pass opened up the game and made it safer. Massed defenses, designed only to stop a crunching ground attack, swiftly became obsolete as more and more teams included the pass among the weapons in their arsenals. Still...
...group of soc rel researchers is journeynig forth -- vicariously -- from the fourteenth floor of William James to find out just what makes London London, Paris Paris, and New York New York. Stanley Milgram, assistant professor of Social Psychology, and the four members of his junior tutorial will spend the semester combining, in Milgram's words, "a passion for scientific measurement with an exquisite perception" of the elements that make up a city's atmosphere...
...more important than their successes on the streets. According to a number of reports, only those who can prove their Party loyalty will be able to enter a university. Course catalogues will be cut to the bone at the expense of the "non-essential" humanities and students will spend six months out of every year in planned projects on the farms or in factories...
...residence at the University of California, and then fled ("Everybody sits around on their tenures; it's no place for professionals") to the San Francisco. The orchestra's 30-week season suits him perfectly, since it gives him time to tour with his chamber-music trio and spend lucrative summers playing film scores in Hollywood...
Time was, any concert soloist worth his cadenza had to spend several long, lean years on the road building a reputation. Today, budding virtuosos are rerouting their careers to take advantage of a new short cut to instant success: contests. More combat than competition, music tournaments have grown in size and importance to the point where there is a contest among contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize...