Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some good hurdlers and middle distance runners, and Jack Hanley, 1945 IC4A cross-country winner, comprise the Big Green's scoring thrust, while Princeton has Cowle and Kelsey in the sprints, but little else. Yale, which the Crimson meets Saturday afternoon, glitters in spots. Columbia trailed in last spring's Heps...
...take it out on Socialism. In the House of Commons Winston Churchill flashed some of his old form and fire: "The brute fact is that Socialism means mismanagement ... incompetence. . . . Let us hope the nation will realize from this flagrant example the downward stairway upon which they are now thrust and down which they have descended only the first few steps...
Manager-Captain Donald Van Roosen's prediction of a victory over Brown last week came true in a big way Saturday as the Varsity foreign team thrust and parrled its way to a one-sided win over the Providence swordsmen in all three events of the battle at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...neither the press agents of Hollywood or Radio Row have thrust a dotted line before the weary winner...
...Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact, a nightmare was just beginning...