Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly good start to its season. They have been beaten and tied once by Brown, a team that does not figure to be too much of a power in the Ivy League...
...Cleary will again open in the nets for the Crimson and with one varsity start under his belt, he should be more effective. Yale and B.U. will make up the other half of tonight's program. They will face off at 7 p.m. at the Arena. The varsity's game is scheduled for 8:30. The Crimson JV's also have a game today with the B.U. freshmen on the Boston Skating Club...
...photography, a human cell mushrooming with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons' 20-mile balloon ascent, capturing some of the suspense and loneliness of his mission. The show made a promising start in a major TV project, though its promise somewhat outstripped its performance. Like Walt Disney's learned japery (see below), Conquest's science reporting avoided condescension and cuteness, but the commentary suffered from a kind of Sunday-supplement inflation that too often made the pictures seem inadequate...
...French regiment on the Western Front. The attack was suggested by the corps commander (Adolphe Menjou) merely as a means of fortifying his personal reputation. It was ordered by the division commander (George Macready). mostly out of vanity and the desire to ingratiate. The attack was impossible from the start, and it failed disastrously-one whole company, for instance, was cut down even before the men could reach their own barbed-wire defenses...
...about twenty minutes of the game, it looked as though the varsity would start its season with flying colors. The Crimson held a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period and had dominated play throughout. But the fact was that it had been B.U.'s mistakes rather than the varsity's skill that allowed the varsity to take the upper hand...