Word: stave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in his efforts to stave off this eventuality, Petrillo had tangled himself up in the works of the canned-music business with the bellicose ingenuity of an octopus in a pea thresher...
...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, All-America Doak Walker celebrated his 21st birthday by helping Southern Methodist to a two-touchdown lead. Then Walker & Co. spent the rest of the game trying to stave off Penn State, whose subs seemed to work harder than the seniors. The score: S.M.U. 13, Penn State...
Last March, in an effort to stave off Congressional investigations, frequently known as "witch hunts," in the civil service, President Truman issued an Executive Order making possible "loyalty tests" for some two million government employees. In addition, the Civil Service Commission was ordered to create a "review board." In the action of this board, which meets for the first time tomorrow, will lie the success or failure of the President's program. Without forceful moves on the part of the board, the examinations can easily fulfill the raucous predictions of those who are already waving their manifestos and shouting "police...
...former will be a last resort. Nearly every other major eastern college has hiked its tuition already, but Harvard's huge endowment has enabled it to maintain. its twenty-year-old rates. The Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...
...ordered) canceled its $16 million contract. Even Douglas, now busy with its DC-6, felt shaky. Douglas' comptroller, Ralph V. Hunt, told the commission of the industry's "losses of record proportions, mounting costs, and a steady shrinking of working capital resources . . . makeshift devices ... to stave off insolvency or bankruptcy...