Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Baaron Pittenger, Harvard's director of sports information, most of the players in the league are planning to go on to some sort of graduate study -- law, business, medicine, or other fields. They can't afford to spend two or three years finding out if they're good enough to play pro ball...
Pittenger also pointed out that players are more likely to develop their skills in big-time football colleges than in the Ivy League. The Ivy League ban on spring practice and the pressures of stiffer academic requirements cut into the time that a player can spend on the practice field...
...three wide black-velvet bands, and a $5,000 reversible "gaudy mink" that is gold lamé on one side, natural ranch on the other. Philosophizes Kaplan, who came within a thesis of a Ph.D. in philosophy: "For years, buying a mink was such a serious thing. When you spend that much money, you should have fun, not suffer." But then, to most people, any $4,000 mink is a fur piece away from suffering...
Nixon has mellowed and he's become a more congenial public figure, a nicer guy, than he was five years ago. But this time when the "new Nixon" presents himself, the people just might fail to see the change. They can't all spend 20 quiet minutes with him, like the law students...
...sequence requirement will also cause administrative problems. Consider, for instance, a student who takes Economics 1 as a sophomore and then decides that he does not enjoy Economics, and does not want to spend any more course-time on it. The CEP plan, as elucidated by Mr. Wilcox, gives him only the choice of leaping backwards into a lower-level course designed for people younger than he, or of taking the unpalatable Economics-oriented courses at the upper-level, or of beginning another two-year sequence...