Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things stand now, Gail Harris at first base, aging Eddie Yost--for years a more prominent fixture in Washington than Sam Rayburn--at third, and tobacco chewing Rocky Bridges at short do not look very promising, and this deficiency will keep the Tigers off the top, unless the big guns deliver well beyond expectations...
...concluding match with the Elis has also often decided Eastern League and Big Three championship races. The current tennis campaign, which starts next Wednesday with a match against M.I.T., is likely to follow a similar pattern, for coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity and its Yale counterparts again stand out as the two top teams in the East...
...conscientiousness" among Radcliffe students also causes a dearth of "imagination" among female students. Evidence from different fields seems to indicate just the opposite, however. Pettigrew notes that girls in his course, Soc. Rel. 134, which concerns modern social problems such as integration, are more willing to take an "adventurous stand" than their Harvard colleagues. This might well be true, he says, because girls will never have to take the responsibility for their radical opinions after college. Nevertheless, the girls' approach toward the course, "irresponsible" or not, does lead to top grades. Each year, of the top 10 grades, only...
...brings his own firearms, a hunter may be able to get away with 30 days in the bush for $4,000. With photographic safaris pushing into the wilds, most Nairobi white hunters are now as expert with cameras as with rifles. Their main task is to stand ready to drop the beast if it should charge while the client is snapping a closeup. Says one hunter: "Frankly, we get a trifle bored...
...with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with his two brothers, in the same relation to the hope-bearing Child as did three wise men of the East 2.000 years before...