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Since nobody except a poet (Richard Basehart) takes at all seriously Miss Leslie's efforts to stave off the inevitable, her second chance does her little good. Some of her struggling in the emotional meshes is fairly interesting, and a certain tension does develop as the clock crawls for the second time to midnight of Dec. 31; but the picture is garnished with so much ham and ineptitude that it hardly seems worth the bother...
...visitors managed to combine four hits with four walks, an error, and a sacrifice in the first frame for seven tallies, and they added four more later to stave off the Jayvee uprisings...
...General Education program a quite drastic, closely related change is being effected without strong, opposition simply because it makes sense. The sense to a requirement of a knowledge of the large out lines of World History is plain too if only on the level that it can help stave off unnecessary war hysteria. In this connection, a recent study-also made at Princeton-found that "30 million Americans of voting age had no idea at all of Russia's form of government." Despite the special, and to a large degree just, claims of philosophy, economics and the sciences to equal...
...took over from the start with Freedman's goal after two minutes had passed, and were never headed. When both Abbott and Fletcher of the Yardlings landed in the penalty box, the prep-school team had a chance to score-but goalie Bill Yetman and his defensemen managed to stave off all onslaughts. Abbot scored his first goal of the contest at 13:05 to make the score at the end of the first frame...
Moravec showed steady improvement as the season progressed, both on offense and defense, and his achievements in the recently-ended season included the interception of a Princeton pass in the end zone to stave off a late Tiger threat; a 12-yard veer buck which produced the Varsity's winning touchdown against Holy Cross, and a one-man drive of 25 yards on seven carries and one forward pass which resulted in the second score against Dartmouth...