Word: stalling
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...Crimson stall members did little about covering national news themselves, and the coverage of College news continued to slip. One day, the paper received this letter from a College official...
...turning out a daily sheet became a tougher proposition as Harvard shrank to 60 per cent of its former enrollment. David M. Little '18, the future Secretary of the University, acted as President while stationed at the Naval Training Station in Cambridge, and reach of the rest of the stall squeezed, in work on I'm Crimson after a day of drilling. No great advances in journalism came out of The Crimson during the war years, but the fact that it survived was enough of an accomplishment. We know next to nothing about the characters and personalities of this period...
...earlier. The not-quite-original idea was never implemented--another straw ballot allowed that students opposed it, 680-383--but the same effect was achieved throughout the country by the Congressional adoption Daylight Savings Time in 1918. When the draft age was lowered in the spring of 1918, the stall was even more drastically depleted, and the paper gave up publication on June...
...FINAL HALF of the 1918-1919 academic year was a rebuilding period, with the Business Board gradually pulling out of the red, and the stall painfully readjusting itself to civilian life. It was nothing to compare with the long, agonizing readjustment that would follow. World War II, but the Spring of 1919 saw dozens of Crimson editors trying to reconcile the more or less carefree undergraduate life with the organized brutality they had just escaped. As the adjustments were magic, and as new blood was added to the staff, the paper gradually improved in news and editorial quality...
Some people criticized coach Bob Harrison for going into a stall with 4:58 seconds left on the clock and Harvard leading by one point. It was certainly a questionable decision. However, if the Crimson was well coached it would have been up by 15 or 20 points at that juncture in the contest. The problem is not so much individual decisions that Harrison may or may not make, but is his failure to discipline the team in order to play consistently The team improving but should have been playing at the level they are at now against Indiana...