Word: stems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Crimson goal succeeded in tying the count, but constant pressure from the B.A.A. offense eventually resulted in an onslaught of scores. Fine defense work by George Tilghman and goal keeper John Knowles' valiant efforts were unable to stem the tide...
...House of Commons, miner M.P. after miner M.P. rose to develop the Lawther theme. Tories who had fought the rising tide for years tried again to stem it. Laborite Hugh Dalton taunted them: "You haven't got your heart in it; there was no punch...
...Canada, despite any foreign notions about its rough & ready rowdiness, is a country deeply endowed with moral sense. Its feelings about "decency" stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...
Fifteen years ago America's 75 ski clubs counted a mere 3,500 members-a cult of shoptalking zealots ("I schussed the slope, tried a stem christie, made a sitzmark"). After the 1932 winter Olympics at Lake Placid came the avalanche: in 1940-41, some 2,000,000 U.S. skiers spent about $200,000,000 to twist ankles and chap cheeks...
...Potter Palmer, a bearded, heavy-spending man who ran the biggest drygoods store in the Middle West, sold out to two of his partners-Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter. With the cash he decided to turn narrow, muddy State Street into Chicago's glittering main stem. He bought and rebuilt buildings right & left, and, as a final glory, erected the Palmer House. It shone for only 13 days, then burned to the ground, with 32 other Palmer properties, in the Chicago fire...