Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spectators will see an unveiling, but the game itself will prove very little. Harvard fans will have to wait until next Saturday's game with Boston University before they can accurately gauge the strength of this year's squad and the chances of hogging the Ivy League title Harvard had to share last fall...
...Leopards' defensive strength is in the middle of the line, most notably at right tackle with Al Piergallini, who was All-Conference and made the weekly All-East team for his performance against Harvard last year...
...whites is some 150 cc. smaller than that of Neanderthal man, who lived 50,000 years ago. Some anthropologists go so far as to say that the Negro's attributes, coupled with the ordeal of slavery, have produced in him a physically superior race-a theory that gains strength from the Negro's extraordinary ability in athletics. The strongest African blacks were selected as the best slave material; only the hardiest of these survived ocean transport in slave ships; only the sturdiest of back and spirit endured slavery's arduous, degrading yoke...
...been resented by some restive students and professors, who regard him as an academic dictator. Sachar, who has never been known to walk away from a fight, blandly dismisses such criticism as "the chastisements of love." An academic presidency, he says, "is not a popularity contest-I believe in strength in governing a university." In the opinion of his peers, Sachar has not only been strong himself but has also provided most of the strength of Brandeis...
Sulfur producers are hard pressed to expand their sources in Texas, the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mexico, where the only minable deposits exist. Last year several companies rushed to pick up land leases in Texas' Pecos County on the strength of a promising 1927 geological survey. Outside Houston, Texas Gulf Sulphur reopened its Old Gulf mine, a relic that the company had worked for 13 years before closing it in 1932 when it was thought to be no longer profitable. Freeport has turned to offshore deposits that were once considered prohibitively expensive. It has one Gulf of Mexico operation...