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Live Ball. Some stat-happy fans feel that Aaron's assault on Ruth's monument somehow belittles baseball's most legendary figure. They point out that Aaron, in his 19th season, has gone to the plate 2,700 more times than Ruth and is hitting a livelier ball. Aaron's supporters counter with the argument that Ruth never had to cope with the hitting problems created by such modern phenomena as night games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Quest for No. 715 | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...game was ?nrgely a chance for the Crimson to fatten its scoring stat??. Bath teams played a slug? game, and Harvard concentrated its efforts on the Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Routs Tigers; Score on Power Plays | 2/25/1971 | See Source »

...interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing," said one policeman. The police also found lascivious carriage a handy stat ute to invoke against anyone whose conduct displeased them. "When you see a black boy and a white girl together," said a Connecticut policeman, "well, you just know what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislation: Modernizing Sex Laws | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...graded half course must be taken in theory and methods of inquiry from a list including Soc. Rel. 82, 138, 197, 198r, 199, Stat. 122 and 123 and additional courses, for example, in mathematics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro-American Studies-What's Going On Here? | 4/21/1969 | See Source »

...charged that students had been misled by "wicked and ambitious persons" employing a "strategy aimed at producing an orgy of nihilism, anarchism and disobedience." Student unrest, however, was only part of the story. During the past sev eral years, the long quiescent opposition to Franco had taken on sufficient stat ure to cause serious worry among the conservatives in the regime. When the crackdown came, it was characteristically harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: End of the Experiment | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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