Word: staving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closely contested all the way, the 200 yard breaststroke was won by Dick Hough Tiger sophomore, who was forced to set a new pool record of 2:29.8 to stave off the threat of Greg Jameson. Graham Cummin too the 150 yard backstroke with Keller in second place, Barker won the 50 yard freestyle in 24.4 seconds as Don McKay placed second, and Rus Greenhood took a third place in the diving to complete the individual events...
...fifteen percent force a much greater group of satisfied employees out of work? Secondly, is it possible for this striking group to use as its weapon the illegal occupation of plants? Thirdly, can unions continue to have what Mr. Justice Brandeis called "practical immunity from legal liability," can they stave of, even in such instances as the present, incorporation or at least some sort of public supervision? The answer to all three questions was "yes" in the recent strike. The sit-down technique proved effective and invulnerable and will undoubtedly be tried increasingly in similar labor disputes...
With desperate maternal shrewdness Catherine tried, by one opportunistic scheme after another, to stave off the collapse of her royal house. She tried to balance the religious diet by enforcing toleration of the Huguenots, she tried to raise money by appealing to the States-General. When these expedients failed and civil war broke out between the Catholics and the Protestants, she was nothing daunted, crossed each bridge when she came to it, and just in time. She was grimly pleased when the first civil war ended in a stalemate, pleased that she could say, "I told you so." Altogether...
Chapter 3, To stave off collapse, a recapitalization plan was put forward in November 1931, providing for reduction of capital stock by 75% and the issuance of new stock and ten-year 6% debentures totaling $11,600,000. Stockholders, principally Radio, approved of the plan, which gave them one new share for four old ones...
...looks as though Yale must be conceded a slight edge. But Harvard-Yale games can't be figured on paper. Pre-game statisticians could have hardly predicted the Yale 3-0 triumph over Barry Wood's 1931 team, a team that had downed Army and Holy Cross to stave off defeat until Albie Booth kicked away an unblemished record in the last quarter. And on the other side of the fence, there is the record of Harvard's last Yale and major victory in 1933 when Fergie Locke ran through the entire Eli team for a score on a kickoff...